On a day of debate on the State of the Nation, in Parliament, the PSD says that, in the Algarve, the outlook is “bad”, with failures in health, education and housing.
According to the PSD, «health in the Algarve is increasingly a health care for the rich and the poor, with the second lowest national coverage of family doctors, lists and waiting times growing and several of the worst hospital indicators: the Algarve continues without the prospect of a new hospital».
In education, at the end of the school year, «there were 5000 young people from the Algarve who did not take all the subjects, which is unacceptable and puts their learning and future at risk».
As for housing, «along with Lisbon and Porto, the Algarve is where the highest housing prices are recorded, which, for a region where low wages predominate, jeopardizes access to housing and invites people abandon it or who make a disproportionate effort to obtain it'.
«During the drought, solutions to make the region more resilient take a long time and in terms of public investment, apart from the rail electrification process - which is positive -, all other investments, such as the requalification of the EN125, the Port of Portimão or the rail connection to the airport have no place in the Government's options», defends the PSD.
For Cristóvão Norte, president of the PSD Algarve, this is “a governance that is limited to letting things take their course, without taking into account the urgency of problems that add up and call into question equal opportunities”.
“It is a torment to find a house to live in, a good school for the children to go to, a decent hospital to be treated. In the Algarve, equal opportunities are at stake, without adequate public services and a diversified economy», he concludes.
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