The former president of the PSD and the Vila Nova de Gaia City Council, Luís Filipe Menezes
Twelve years after the end of the last of the four terms he won, always with absolute majorities, the former mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia is a new candidate for the leading the third largest autarchy in the country.
The PSD council of Vila Nova de Gaia unanimously approved the name of the former president of the municipality Luís Filipe Menezes For the head of the October municipal list, the party announced in a statement sent to Lusa.
“In a meeting held this Friday, the PSD Political Commission of Vila Nova de Gaia approved unanimously The name of Dr. Luís Filipe Menezes as a candidate for the presidency of the Vila Nova de Gaia City Council in the local elections on October 12, ”he reads.
Considers the PSD-Gaia that, “for all Gaienses, Luís Filipe Menezes represents ambition, courage, visionthe ability to decide and do, ”highlighting his“ remarkable course, his profound connection to the county, the 16 -year -old legacy that is proud, along with his recognized creative capacity, contrast with the stagnation and discredit of the last 12 years ”.
Insisting that the candidacy “also reveals the political maturity From the PSD-Gaia, who knew how to gather experience and ambition in a choice that honors the past and prepares the future, ”underlines this“ the best response to the aspirations of the Gaienses and a renewed hope in a solid, competent and close municipal project ”.
Luís Filipe Menezes was first elected in 1997 president of the local authority of Vila Nova de Gaia, the third largest in the country, having been reelected three timesin 2001, 2005 and 2009. Obtained absolute majority In the four elections.
Their mandates ahead of the municipality made the then “Bedroom” in one of the most developed urban centers in the country, and put Vila Nova de Gaia in the NORTH MORVIDA CENTER – Having been famous for their disputes with the then mayor of Porto, his party colleague Rui Rioby the leadership of the cultural landscape and leisure of the two neighboring cities.
The mandates of the former PSD president, between 2007 and 2008, were also marked by Rehabilitation of the Gaia Maritime Orlawhose 16 kilometers of beaches rival the Algarve region.
After the end of his last term in Gaia, he applied in 2013 to the presidency of the Porto City Council, an election that would come to Lose to Rui Moreira.
At the time, the presidency of the Vila Nova de Gaia Chamber was won by the socialist Eduardo Vítor Rodriguesthat, after 12 years ahead of the municipality in May, after it was for the misuse of a municipal car.
In Gaia, the candidacies of former Secretary of State João Paulo Correia by PS, André Araújo by CDU (PCP/PEV), Daniel Gaio by Volt and Luís Filipe Menezes (PSD) are already known.
The current executive of the Gaia Chamber is composed of nine elected by the PS and two by the PSD/CDS-PP/PPM coalition.
