Rui Moreira fears that Portugal 2030 and PRR serve to ″plug holes″
The mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, said he feared that the Portugal 2030 financing program and the funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) would serve to “plug holes”.
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“I fear that Portugal 2030 is to plug the ‘pseudodecentralization’ hole that you [o PS] im impose on the Portuguese”, said the mayor, during a session of the Municipal Assembly of Porto, on Thursday night.
Rui Moreira responds to socialist deputy Odete Patrício, who had questioned the mayor about the operational program, during the debate on the municipality’s 2021 accounts.
He also stated that “the PRR serves to plug holes”, reiterating that the European funding line, with regard to culture, “is a disgrace”.
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Rui Moreira also attacked the PS in relation to the decentralization of competences. The mayor said that the socialists “know the numbers very well” and “they know what is at stake – it is a jettison of skills”.
“A year from now, when we are here looking at the accounts, we will see that the municipality managed to do, in fact. Not in what it wanted, it had to do in what was ordered, ordered, by the Government, in things like asbestos in cities like ours where schools no longer had asbestos, what they transfer are schools with ami in schools. In a year, yes, it will be this government that will be judged”, he continued.
Patrício opted for “not replicating national policies” and insisted on considering only the municipality’s accounts on social issues.
Moreira’s fabrics have critical points in the process of decentralization of competences, having even taken to the executive a proposal to leave the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities, which was approved on 19 April.
The process of downloading skills in more than 20 areas of the Central Administration for the municipalities has been going on since 2019.
A definitive and mandatory download of skills in the areas of Education, Health and Social Action for the municipalities was scheduled for April this year, after several postponements.
On February 03, the Government can enable the possibility of extending the January 202 of 202 deadline for the qualification of Social Action competence, maintaining the capacity to carry out Education on April 01.
On March 25, the Porto City Council filed a precautionary measure to stop decentralization in the areas of education and health.
On April 4, the councilor for Education of the Porto Chamber, Fernando Paulo, said that the measure was accepted, but without suspensive effects, which led the municipality to “accommodate” the competences.