The PS in Portimão asks that "if there are any doubts, find out" whether local party militants were improperly vaccinated against Covid-19, including Isilda Gomes, the mayor, and promises to know how to "interpret the political consequences the outcome of these fact-finding processes” and take “the decisions that best serve the community”.
“The Socialist Party of Portimão does not accept tacitism, concealment or flight forward in this process, so it considers it essential that the competent authorities quickly investigate and make public the result of its conclusions”, the socialists say.
The PS Secretariat of Portimão, which met last night, also said that it considered "unacceptable and morally inadmissible the undue use of vaccines." "Therefore, it was with great pleasure that we received the information that the Public Prosecutor's Office and the General Inspectorate of Health Activities were already in the process of investigating this type of situation."
Despite this openness to internal repercussions in the party, for now, the PS in Portimão's attitude is one of defense of the local socialists involved in controversies related to the vaccine.
The PS went public "to express political solidarity" with its militants from Portimo, accused of having been improperly vaccinated against Covid-19, criticizing what it considers "medieval practices of hunting witches, to reap electoral dividends."
The most popular case was that of the mayor Isilda Gomes, vaccinated as a volunteer at the Covid inpatient campaign hospital installed in Portimão Arena, which has already taken the opposition parties to ask for his resignation.
But as the Sul Informação realized, there were also the cases of elements of the corporate bodies the Social Support Center for the Elderly of Portimão, namely its head, José Figueiredo Santos, who is also the leader of the socialist caucus in the Municipal Assembly, and his ex-wife Ana Fazenda, former councilor at the Chamber, elected by the PS .
Although there is no doubt that these three militants were vaccinated against Covid-19, as they themselves admitted – in the case of Ana Fazenda and Isilda Gomes, in statements to the Sul Informação – PS speaks of the need for people to be "judged by their acts in the appropriate places and by the right institutions", saying they do not accept "popular judgments, without knowledge of the facts".
However, the facts appear to be clear, although there are justifications on the part of those targeted for having been vaccinated.
Isilda Gomes told our newspaper, when the situation was made public, she only agreed to take the vaccine because she was going to volunteer at the campaign hospital.
The Chamber confirmed this justification, on Monday, num post done on Facebook, where he guaranteed that vaccination against Covid-19 was a “necessary condition” for the mayor to be voluntary.
Now, PS/Portimão alleges that «comrade Isilda Gomes did not ask to be vaccinated, and that was when the team that started functions at CHUA Arena Portimão did so and did not hide, they did so in full view of members of that team» .
However, as the opposition parties were keen to point out, the causes pointed out for the vaccination do not seem to fit in with the rules of this first stage of vaccination.
O CDS-PP claimed that, because Isilda Gomes did not have «any risky contact with Covid-19 patients in the context of her volunteer work, she illegally and illegitimately benefited from a public benefit (a vaccine that, at the moment, is scarce!), which constitutes a very serious situation of abuse of power, which wounds its public and political credibility to death».
O BE, in turn, defended that “the criteria of the vaccination plan do not include volunteering”.
“According to the health authorities, the criteria defined for the vaccination plan against Covid, due to insufficient vaccines, are very clear: in this 1st phase, health professionals directly involved in providing care to patients should be vaccinated; professionals residing in homes and similar institutions; professionals and hospitalized in continuing care units; professionals from the armed forces, security forces and critical services and, now, firefighters», states this party.
Also included in the list are 'people aged 50 and over with heart or kidney failure, or with chronic coronary or respiratory disease', as well as 'all people over 80'.
Yes, the PSD speaks in "lack of transparency in the schedule" of the vaccination process against Covid-19, in Portimão, "started with the improper taking of the vaccine, to which I was not entitled, two days before the beginning of the Arena's operation."
All opposition parties are clear in their conclusion: the mayor of Portimão is unable to remain in office and must resign.
It will be these positions, taken following the coming public of the controversial vaccinations, which the Portimão socialists consider, in their communiqué, to be attempts to "harvest electoral dividends".
In other words, it is necessary to wait to find out the conclusions of the requested inquiry and to know whether or not they will give electoral trumps to the opposition.
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