Here for days the municipality of Loulé announced that it has “started” the procedures to demolish 25 illegal houses, with 116 on the rail, in a total of 691 wood and modular structures implanted on rustic land, RAM, REN and other easements or restrictions of Public utility, providing for the purpose of a € 200,000 for this year, which is clearly insufficient and unrealistic if it was to take seriously. All this relevant to the field of pure illusionism. First of all, the municipality arrives late to this combat. For more than two years we have been denouncing this situation on the pages of the postcard, without being envisioned the most shy reaction on the ground, by any local, regional or national entity. The situation, however, became explosive, uncontrolled and, doubtfully reversible.
A autarquia chega atrasada a este combate. Há mais de dois anos que vimos denunciando esta situação nas páginas do Postal
Portugal is today a country without authority, and who has it de juredoes not exercise it in factbecause everything turns around the vote, nobody wants to buy problems with anyone, much less in the election year, follow the boat and here we are laughing and singing. Starting procedures to demolish two dozen homes when in reality they are already many thousands, it only means an attempt to alienate future responsibilities for the inertia present in the fulfillment of local duties. It should be awarded someone, the day this rocket gives way to the first demolition. In the days they run, the cool tangle does not favor this kind of actions. Even though the demolition brigade arrives at the door, a precautionary action will appear in a timely manner that suspends it, there will be children and the elderly inside, a social problem with family on the street, live televisions to expand the drama. Nothing will happen. By the way, it would be interesting that someone counted how many demolition records have been issued in the Algarve in the last ten years, and how many have been actually executed and fulfilled.
In the unfortunate attempt to change the law of soil use (Decree-Law No. 117/2024, of December 30), besides not being glimpsed as it may solve even in the medium term the problem of the gigantic lack of housing for the classes Average/low, it only came to create expectations on the owners of rustic land that saw an opportunity to do more value in what was worth a little more than zero. Just see the value of the square meter that today is requested by any steel or ruins of house wherever it is. Inflation and speculation is the result.
People used to the favela, discovered Portugal’s weakness. The offense pays off, impunity wins. It is to see them grow like mushrooms, inside and on the coast, isolated or near the tourist resorts of luxury, tents that are no longer well tents, or container villages. Just circulate on the roads, via the infant, en 125 or municipal paths to see. It will not stop or stop. In the Algarve, as in Portugal, there is a whole country and a people who are fading out, occupied by people who come from outside, with other customs, other principles, other habits and other cultures, and who demand us that we are part. In contrast, 73% of our young university students intend to abandon the country (according to a study by the Porto Academic Federation). Imported mafias without police control have already settled, and came to stay. We are boring, our soft customs have gone through the barrel below. There are still those who remember the time that the key was left outside the door.
Today, insecurity and violent crime are not just a perception, they are a reality, as much as some want to hide it. Of course, it is not the exclusive fruit of the migratory invasion of open doors that for eight years has impeached in Portugal and Europe, but is also associated with it is too evident. In this regard, I subscribe to the magnificent article by António Barreto, entitled “The debate is in the public square” (public on 15 February). From there breath: “Each people have the right to choose those who offer better reception conditions. The reverse is not true: a people have no right to settle where and in the conditions they prefer. ”
*The author writes according to the old spelling
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