CDU warns of “abandoned” Algarve countryside in Alcoutim campaign

Catarina Marques stressed that the problems faced by the populations of Alcoutim are not very different from the rest of the Algarve interior.

Catarina Marques, CDU candidate for the circle of Faro to the legislative elections, he was in Alcoutim, this Wednesday, January 26, and said that «the Algarve is not just beach and sea. It also has a mountain range, a vast interior area that has been abandoned”.

In Alcoutim, Catarina Marques stressed that «the problems faced by the population of the municipality are not very different from the rest of the Algarve interior».

The candidate was campaigning in Alcoutim and Vila Real de Santo António, in contact with workers from local authorities, parents and guardians from various schools and with local businesses.

«A territory where employment is scarce and where the productive apparatus has disappeared. Where over the years essential public services to populations have been closed. Where public investment is scarce. Where transport and perspectives and life are lacking for the youngest who are less and less. Where a considerable part of the population does not have basic sanitation».

For the CDU candidate, Alcoutim is «a mirror of the inequalities that the policy that PS and PSD imposed, over the years, between the coast and the interior», but «the struggle of these populations did not stop developing and having results, as evidenced by the new commitment for the construction of the Alcoutim – Sanlúcar international bridge, which has long been demanded».

The CDU highlighted “some of its proposals to respond to the problem of desertification that affects part of the Algarve region, such as the general increase in salaries, without which it is not possible to settle young people in this territory”.

Also «the enhancement of public services, including the reopening of those that have closed, the increase in pensions for retirement; the guarantee of public transport, support for agriculture and the rural world and the implementation of regionalization» were other proposals presented by the coalition.

 



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