Rui Tavares and João Soares embraced, PS and free together in Sintra, Godinho promises 10,000 homes

Ana Mendes Godinho is a candidate for the City Council of Sintra; For freedom, for democracy, against setbacks.

The candidacy of the former minister ANA MENDES GODINHO the presidency of the City Council of Sintra, supported by an autarchic coalition PS/Book, It was presented this Sunday as a project in defense of freedom and democracy, against “setbacks”.

During the candidacy session, which gathered, among others, the secretary general of the PS, José Luís Carneiroand the free co-poster, Rui Tavares, In a primary school in the parish of Algueirão-Mem Martins, it was announced that the former minister and socialist mayor and mayor João Soares – Embraced Rui Tavares on stage – will be the candidate for the Sintra Municipal Assembly.

In a county where it arrives was the most voted force in the early legislatures of May 18 and has Mrs Rita Matias as a candidate for the City Council, Ana Mendes Godinho said that her candidacy is “Against the policy of fear, hatred and division.”

“We know that there are those who want to transform people’s frustration into anger, Sintra’s diversity in a threat, but we chose another way. In Sintra, with us, with me, they will never be read aloud to accentuate our differences, ”continued the former Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security.

Ana Mendes Godinho added that her candidacy “does not get up against anyone, get up to everyone” and that “Sintra does not need returns or setbacksSintra only needs proximity, energy, work, courage to do differently. ”

“It is with the strength of democracy that we will defeat demagogy, populism and all who want to question the health of our project,” said PS secretary general secretary José Luís Carneiro.

Houses and Transport

Ana Mendes Godinho promised “put, up to 2030, 10,000 casas in the market at affordable prices and incomes ”and more transport, including direct buses to Lisbon.

The former Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security has also promised to “create and increase the network of day care centers with six thousand new places of free places”.

In the mobility, that elected as “Essential priority”, Ana Mendes Godinho said he will fight “to ensure that the Sintra line starts to function as a line of metro, com trains regular and predictable with each 10 minutes ”.

“In parallel, we assumed the need to guarantee by buses BRT The connection between the municipalities of Sintra, Cascais, Oeiras and Odivelas, recognizing, of course, the centrality of Sintra in the metropolitan area. But also the creation of careers of direct buses between Sintra and Lisbonconnecting different areas of the county to various points in the metropolitan area, ”he added.

The candidate for the House reaffirmed the commitment, which he said that he has already announced, “end the tolls in A16 For residents, workers and companies in the county ”, considering that it represents“ a very strong investment, but it is a fair measure ”and“ helps to decongest the IC19, which is suffocated every day ”.

Ana Mendes Godinho committed to “an ambitious program for housing In Sintra who guarantees a family, a house, enjoying and starting from the work of local strategy already on the ground. ”

“We believe that we will, with this plan focused, put, by 2030, 10,000 houses on the market at affordable prices and incomes. With the House to lead, without hesitation, and with the private and cooperative sector to collaborate, because the time to get drunk and distrust each other has passed, ”he said.

“Freedom”

Rui Tavares, from Livre, pointed out “ freedom” as a value that unites the two parties in this municipal candidacy: “It is in the name of freedom that we apply as well. From the freedom of all and all Sintrenses.”

The current mayor of Sintra, Basilio Horta, that cannot be re -applied by the limit of mandates, spoke in the last place and was the only one who expressly referred to the party arrives, considering that the PS will not “interrupt the victory cycle” in Sintra, but “this time is not easy”.

“We have here a problem that is the rise of the far right, and this is serious For us, because it is one thing to go back to the past, and the PSD list is clearly a return to the pastBut the arrival list is to return to the past with serious problems in individual and collective freedom, ”said Basilio Horta.

According to the mayor, this “must be seriously mobilizing” the joint candidacy of the PS and the free, “beyond the municipal problems”, because “there is an obvious risk of such tik-tok of which Ana Mendes Godinho spoke and the People naively believe. ”

“I think those who cherish democracy, Whoever values ​​freedom cannot vote forit cannot vote for the arrival, and it is good to say that with total clarity, because there are wars, ”said Basilio Horta,” who have to be looked at in a timely manner, and this is the time to crash it. “

The Chamber of Sintra, in the Lisbon district, is led by the PS, which in 2021 obtained five terms, with the coalition of social democrat Ricardo Baptista Leite obtained four elected, the arrival elected Nuno Afonso, who passed the independent, besides Pedro Ventura.

So far, the candidacies Marco Almeida (PSD/IL), Maurício Rodrigues (CDS-PP), Rita Matias (arrives) and Pedro Ventura (CDU, PCP/PEV coalition) are also known.