Ana Fazenda is number 2 on the list headed by social democrat Rui André to the Portimão City Council.
This choice caused some surprise, given the fact that Ana Fazenda was a prominent figure in the PS from Portimão, after being president of the Parish Council of Portimão and councilor with the responsibility of Social Action and Culture in the first executive led by the socialist Isilda Gomes.
However, Ana Fazenda ended up at odds with the current president of the Portimão Chamber, and, in the 2017 Municipal Elections, refused to go down from 3rd to 4th position on the PS list, preferring to stay out of the list of candidates.
Withdrawing from the autarchic policy, Ana Fazenda was until recently the regional coordinator of the Committees for the Protection of Children and Youth (CPCJ) of the Algarve, a position where she took advantage of the vast experience in dealing with these issues, accumulated over many years ahead of the Parish Council and in the Portimão Chamber.
Last January, he was in the news for having been one of the people linked to the governing bodies of the Support Center for the Elderly of Portimão who would have been vaccinated without, allegedly, still having the right to do so. But, because the vaccine was justified by the functions that it then also performed in that institution in Portimo, the case brought by the Public Ministry against it ended up being filed.
The former councilor, with a lot of experience in the ins and outs of the Portimão Chamber, is seen as an asset to the candidacy for this municipality by the social democrat Rui André, still president of the neighboring Chamber of Monchique, but in which he has already reached his term limit.
In statements to the Sul Informação, Ana Fazenda said she was “challenged” by Rui André to accept this candidacy. "Because I know him well, I know his humanist profile, his devotion to the population, I thought for a while and decided to accept."
The candidate for vice-president says that she is "very happy to be able to integrate this project, of proximity, made for the positive", hoping that the candidacy can "make a difference".
For his part, the head of the list Rui André, whose campaign posters began to be put up this week, explained, on his Facebook page, that “due to a legal impediment and not being able to re-candidate for the presidency of the Monchique Chamber, I accepted the challenge of putting my local experience at the service of Portimão and Portimonenses, allied to the youth that still characterizes me and to an enormous desire to transform this city and all its parishes into a municipality with better quality of life, raising its enormous potential. and affirming Portimão as a leading and more assertive city in the regional and national context».
The list of the PSD to the Portimão Chamber also includes other well-known names in the city and municipality, such as Ricardo Oliveira, Filipa Mimoso, linked to Ideal Chapelaria, Ileana Rosendo França, daughter of a PSD from Portimão, or even surfer Francisco Canelas.
The mayor is the head of the list of the coalition «Um Novo Portimão», led by the Social Democratic Party and which also integrates the PPM – Popular Monarchic Party and the Partido da Terra Movement, and which presents itself to elections in all municipal bodies of the municipality of Portimão – City Council, Municipal Assembly, and Parish Assemblies of Portimão, Alvor and Mexilhoeira Grande.
The list for the Municipal Assembly is headed, as in 2017, by Carlos Gouveia Martins, president of the PSD Council, with a history as number two orange, Natalino Alves. The first surprise on this list appears in the name chosen for number 3, since it is the lawyer Cristina Velha, who was already a municipal deputy, but for the We Citizens Movement.
The lists for Parishes are led by Ricardo Silva (Portimão), 1st firefighter, a well-known figure in the city, as well as by Hugo Carrajola Teixeira (Alvor), cook and leader of a tribute band to the Doors, and Carmen Esteves (Mexilhoeira Grande ), linked to the community theater in this village.
Carlos Gouveia Martins, president of the PSD/Portimão, underlined the Sul Informação the fact that the lists included "many new people and not just PSD militants". There are also lists where parity is contrary to what is usual, that is, where there are more women than men. This is the case of the list for the Chamber, which includes 5 women and 4 men, or the candidacy to the Parish of Mexilhoeira Grande, also with 5 women and 4 men.
As for the two remaining parties that make up the “Um Novo Portimão” coalition, they have little expression in the lists. Of the 27 candidates for the Municipal Assembly, two are nominated by the MPT and many others by the PPM. The lists to the Chamber or to the Parishes do not include anyone from these other formations, nor in the substitutes.
Here are the complete lists of the coalition «Um Novo Portimão» (PSD+PPM+MPT):
Click here to see the list to the City Council (PDF)
Click here to know the list to the Municipal Assembly (PDF)
Click here to see the list of the Parish Assembly of Portimão (PDF)
Click here to see the list of the Alvor Parish Assembly (PDF)
Click here to know the list of the Parish Assembly of Mexilhoeira Grande (PDF)
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