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Carolina Serrão, during her presentation as a head of the Left Block to the Lisbon City Council
At the presentation of Carolina Serrão as a candidate for the Left Block (BE) to the Lisbon Chamber, Mariana Mortágua warned that no one has “in her pocket” the votes that give majority at the Lisbon Authority, insisting that forces must be added to “teach a lesson to the angry right of the country ”.
Lisbon is not in anyone’s pocket – it was with this idea that the coordinator of BE Mariana Mortágua launched Carolina Serrão to the Capital Chamber.
“It is possible to defeat Carlos Coins in Lisbon and to give a lesson to the angry right in the country. It is possible to raise another city, a real Lisbon, a city of freedom, which is how we want to be Lisbon. But nothing is guaranteed. May no one think they have the votes in Lisbon in his pocket to defeat Carlos Coins, ”warned Mariana Mortágua.
The BE coordinator was speaking at the launch lunch of the Blockista candidacy Carolina Serrão to the local authority of Lisbon, in the capital, at a time when the Blocks still leave the possibility of a pre-election coalition with left forces, such as PS, Free and Pan.
Be’s own head of Be, Carolina Serrão, challenged the PS, free and PCP to a convergence and “courage to face real estate speculation”.
“Faced with Carlos Coladas catastrophe We have to have the courage to face real estate speculation and stop touristification and this is the challenge we leave to the PS, the PCP, the city’s free and social movements, to overcome this past it takes convergence and it takes courage, ”, Appelled Carolina Serrão.
Despite this candidacy, the blocks still leave the possibility of a pre-election coalition with left forces, such as PS, Free and PAN. THE CDU It has already announced that your candidate will be the councilman and former pride João Ferreira (PCP), distancing itself from this eventual alliance.
Carolina Serrão spared no coins
In an intervention of about 15 minutes, Carolina Serrão launched harsh criticism of the current mayor, Carlos Coins, stating that the social democrat “Facaled Tudo”.
One of the areas in which the BE considers coins favored – and that it is the most important in a possible coalition on the left – it was in the fight against the crisis of housingstating that since the beginning of his mandate “the price of houses increased by 16% and the lace increased 63%“.
“He was saying that he distributed keys of 2,000 homes with affordable income, forgot it was to say that they came from the previous term by the hand of the 100% public affordable income program that the left block imposed on its agreement with the PS in 2017 ”He stressed.
Stating that “staying in Lisbon is an act of insubmission and rebellion”, Carolina Serrão, proposed an “emergency program” for housing, stating that the House “has already identified its own land that allows you to build more than 7,400 homes”.
“In the next term we have to bring all these land land to the 100% public affordable income program proposed by BE,” he said, arguing that the financing should go through the increase in the tourist rate.
As for non -municipal land, “real estate prosecutors should be required to put in the market at least 25% of new accessible lease houses,” he said, stating that this is done in cities such as Vienna, Berlin or Paris.
Carolina Serrão accused coins of having failed in public transportwith a “slower, less reliable and much more full rails,” criticized the removal of tracks for buses in the capital and lamented that traffic in Lisbon is “a hell.”
“And it failed in the essentials, in garbage collection. Lisbon is living an authentic garbage crisis. Coins promised us unicorns, but after all what is there are rats and cheap“He accused.
A sUSPENSION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOTELSthe reduction of local accommodation and the end of “predatory tourism and cruise pollution” are other causes of blocks.
Carolina Serrão, who “was born, grew, studied and works” in the capital, regretted having seen many “Neighbors and known to his expelled from home”“Immigrants leaning against the wall” or “the bakery, the shoemaker, the nail store” to close.
Mortágua promises that “nothing will be like before”
Mortágua stressed, in turn, that it will be necessary to listen and mobilize “residents, associations, workers, housing activists, climate activists” and “a program that is able to give hope to the Lisbon and to convince the people living in Lisbon what Nothing will be like before“.
“What Local accommodation is to control and that houses are to livethe houses are to live and to pay with the salary. The priority of priorities is the one who lives in Lisbon and less than doing this, having this transformative program of hope, unless this will be very little for the challenge that we face, which is to return Lisbon to its people, ”he warned.
Mortágua listed several of the “achievements” of the BE in the capital’s vehicle, such as the creation of “A model to welcome people in a homeless situation”the “first municipal line to support domestic violence”, a program of “free school manuals” and “a plan for integrating immigrants that Carlos Coins now despise”.
The bloquist also accused coins of having agitated “and crime and did it against all evidence and data from PSP and PJ”.
