Estela Silva / Lusa
Manuel Pizarro, candidate for the Socialist Party to local elections.
PS candidate for the PS with promises invested in housing, security and especially mobility: wants free walking for more comfortable seniors and buses.
PS candidate to the Porto Chamber, Manuel Pizarro, announced Monday that he wants to make available 5 thousand homes with moderate income Over the next 4 years it promises to start the foundations of an urban rehabilitation program.
In his speech to present the candidacy, which took place at the Bolsa Palace in Porto, the candidate announced that in addition to housing, mobility and security will be the priorities if he is elected president.
Still in the theme housing, he promised to mobilize all agents in the sector to be able to make housing available at an affordable cost, while letting the market work healthily and thus help with its taxes to finance the moderate income program and thus regenerate and thus regenerate and put in the housing market the approximately 20,000 vacant and degraded fires that subsist in the cityhe explained.
Manuel Pizarro warns, however, that the effort of this program will have to be extended in time.
Free walking for seniors, more comfortable buses
Regarding mobility, the “in Porto Fashion” candidacy, defends an approach that goes beyond the city, and has a metropolitan and regional scale, with the backdrop of “the fact of 77% of cars circulating in Porto come from outside”.
In this context, it argues that the Porto Collective Transport Society has to work hand in hand with the Metropolitan Transport Company, which buses have to be more comfortable, preferably with two floorsMay people know their schedules, assuming Manuel Pizarro the commitment of in 2026 making it free walking for those over 65 years.
The PS candidate defends the expansion of the port and support for the modernization of taxis, while TVDE “have to be regulated and qualified” And that its number in circulation “has to be limited and regulated, otherwise cannibalize the city to the streets of the city”, while Metrobus “has to enter rapidly and urgently in operation.”
Still in the Chapter of Mobility, defends the Deviation from heavy traffic from the internal waistway (VCI) to the external regional circular of Porto (CREP) and the abolition of circular tolls to the harbor and the improvement of “access to troubled nodes, from the outset in Francos and access to the Self -Elected (A) 3 and A4.
About the gentle ways of circulation, on foot or by bicycle, promised to invest in the city, even if this implies “closing to traffic several arteries of the city center”, it reads.
To address the third priority, security, Manuel Pizarro, ensures that “there will be greater visibility, greater proximity and greater presence in the street of security forces” to those who “will help the team with the right vehicles”.
In his intervention in the face of more than 400 people, Manuel Pizarro also stated that social cohesion “is a security pillar”, assuming the “leadership of a true cohesion program, offering social and health support to consumers of stunned, promoting their reintegration”.
In a phase when the speech hardened, the socialist candidate said he will not accept “that investing in Porto and North are relegated to a secondary plan” refusing the idea that “the entire investment in Lisbon is national and that everyone benefits”.
Carneiro’s support, “a sign of union”
In assistance, among others, were the only candidate to the secretary general of the PS, José Luís Carneiro As well as Fernando Paulo, who in the current term is councilor of the executive led by independent Rui Moreira.
“I think today we gave a great sign of the total union of the socialist family and gave other signs, which I consider equally or more relevant, the ability to bring here a part of the best that Porto has in the different domains,” said the candidate in the end of the ceremony that took place at the Bolsa Palace.
“I am confident of the profound relationship I have with people from Porto and the fact that they present these elections the best proposals and the best teams. This, by the way, will be an application that does not go against anyone. It is really an application for positive in favor of Porto,” he said, without leaving out, however, however, Attacks to the social democratic adversary, Pedro Duarte.
Pedro Duarte is “cat hidden with a tail,” said Pizarro. “I see the most partying of all candidates, the PSD candidate trying to go through independent,” he kicked.
