The PS/Algarve accuses the Democratic Alliance of placing, in its electoral program, the objective of “stopping the construction process” of the desalination plant.
In a press release, the socialists say that the right-wing coalition wants to “evaluate the project”, despite it already being “in the international public tender phase”.
Last February, the company “Águas do Algarve” opened the competition, which includes the design, construction and operation of the Algarve Seawater Desalination System, for a base price of 90 million.
At this stage, «evaluating means stopping», says Jamila Madeira. The head of the PS list says that the AD's intention not only means delaying the execution of the work, but would also put at risk the «fulfillment of the Recovery and Resilience Plan funds and, ultimately, make its construction unfeasible».
Jamila Madeira also targets the Central Hospital, accusing the AD of also intending to go back on this process.
«The PSD wants it to be transformed into a full public-private partnership, that is, for clinical management to also be private, and to do so they have to change all the pieces and start the process over from scratch. Now, the AD is also saying in its electoral program that it intends to stop the tender for the desalination plant,” he says.
«They don’t do it, nor do they allow it to be done. We are facing a return to the past. In 2011, all the investments we had in the Algarve stopped, from the requalification of the EN125, to the hospital and now, as if AD was short for “ADiar”, if they had that opportunity, they would stop everything again», concludes Jamila Madeira.
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