The petition “for pedestrian access to Cabanas Beach” was delivered in last December, having been validated and admitted. Of the 9,300 signatures submitted, 8,993 were considered valid after the services of the Assembly of the Republic exclude about 300 because they are not properly complete.
“This petition is, according to what we have learned, the second largest petition on issues that concern the Algarve, ever delivered to the Assembly of the Republic,” the “Played Ponte to Cabanas Beach” movement states in a statement, statement states in a statement. The association “for pedestrian access to Cabanas beach.
According to information from parliamentary services, the petition will now be the target of a hearing of the petitioners at the Environment and Energy Commission, followed by its full publication in the Journal of the Assembly of the Republic. Subsequently, the Commission will send a copy of the document and the respective report to parliamentary groups, allowing the eventual presentation of legislative initiatives. As more than 7,500 subscribers gathers, it will also be discussed in plenary of the Assembly of the Republic.
“We hope that our deputies, from all political parties represented from the Assembly of the Republic, will help us correct an error about a quarter of a century, consisting of the existence of an intensive career of boats to cross 200 meters of Ria, In a location where there is no navigation channel, so it is an illegality, with all the environmental damage it represents, ”says the movement in a statement.
“A boat crossing that, instead of wishing to reverse, the municipality of Tavira intends to legalize and increase, through an exclusive contract for 25 years, delivering the crossing to a company that already explores the current crossing, the shadow rental, The restaurant and the beach bars, on a beach that, to have access to which citizens are required to pass inside one of them! A crossing for the maintenance of which are essential regular dredges, with all the environmental damage they also cause ”, can be read in the note.
“We are more than 9,000 voices, citizens of caban, tavirenses, visitors, tourists, cabin lovers, people who, instead of deepening an error, claim their correction through the installation at the site of a pedestrian walkway that enables them to enjoy it Fantastic beach all year, any day, anytime, with environmental benefit, with economic development for the land and contrary to a political error that we will not allow to deepen and, on the contrary, we demand that it be corrected, ”concludes the statement signed by José António Pinto.
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