Lisbon City Council wants popular marches at this year’s city parties
“ONE Lisbon City Council, despite what the pandemic situation is and which we hope does not evolve in the negative direction, obviously this year the popular marches return to the street, that the Lisbon parties work at 100%”, said Diogo Moura ( CDS-PP), within the scope of a hearing on the 2022 municipal budget, held by videoconference, with the deputies of the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon.
Diogo Moura, who is responsible for monitoring the activity of the Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural (EGEAC), a municipal entity that organizes the Lisbon popular marches, highlighted the idea of ”re-evaluating and living what they are like city traditions”.
“Just as the marches are the point, so very soon we will move forward with all the extensions to the popular marches”, indicated the councilor for Culture.
In the context of the covid-19 pandemic, the municipality of Lisbon, under the leadership of Fernandona (PS), canceled the city’s parties in the last two years, without allowing the holding of arraiais, or popular marches.
This is the first municipal budget of the 2021-2025 mandate, under the president of social democrat Carlos Moedas, in which the proposal presented foresees an expenditure of 1.16 million euros.
After winning the September 2021 municipal elections at the head of the “Novos Tempos” coalition (PSD/CDS-PP/MPT/PPM/Aliança), Carlos Moedas (PSD) governs the municipality of Lisbon, but without absolute.
In the current mandatory (2021-2025), the executive is composed of seven elected by the “Novos Tempos” coalition (three from the PSD, two from the CDS-PP and two independents), who are the only ones with assigned roles.
There are also seven members elected by the “Mais Lisboa” coalition (five from PS, one from Livre and one independent), two from the PCP/PEV coalition (both from the PCP) and one elected by BE.
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