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Carlos Coins presented his list candidate for the Lisbon City Council, which integrates names of the coalition between PSD, CDs and liberal initiative. The mayor stresses that this list represents a “new cycle” and is made up of people with experience in public management and other skills. It defends the choice of moderate candidates in an increasingly polarized world, and promises to focus the campaign in work developed in the last four years, as well as in proposals for the future.
Carlos Coins presented this Monday morning the candidate for the Lisbon City Council (CML). The team is part of the coalition names between the PSD, CDs and liberal initiative, as well as three independents. Gonçalo Reis, former president of RTP and deputy in 2022, now occupies the 2nd place on the list, replacing Filipe Anacorete Correia. Among the names that are maintained is Diogo Moura, from CDS, now in 5th place, after being removed on suspicions of electoral fraud.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, Carlos Coins stated that this is a list that represents a “New Cycle” and considers it to be “The best list to serve the Lisbon at this time.”
“It is a list of excellence, made up of people with great experience in public management. It is therefore a list of elements with skills in various areas – from culture to urbanism, through engineering. We have a team of people with great value.”
“I was fortunate to have the consensus needed to choose people who do not belong to parties. Three of these people, who will certainly be elected, have no party affiliation. They are great professionals, moderate, and that’s precisely what I seek: moderate people in an increasingly polarized world,” continues the current mayor of the capital.
Warns of a society that “If you are dividing between the far right and the extreme left“At a time when moderate parties approach these extremes.
Campaign (only) about safety and housing?
Topics such as a security and housing They have been highlighted among municipal candidates to the capital Lisbon in recent months. Carlos Coins stresses that his election campaign will focus on the work done at the municipality over the last four years and proposals that intends to realize if it is elected for a second term.
“Lisbon remains a safe city, but we have to beware. I have an important role here: to demand the most effective government for the Municipal Police, and I will always be here to hit the Lisbon,” says Carlos Coins.
And the departure of Filipa Roseta?
This year, Carlos Coins chose only one councilman for an eligible place: Diogo Moura. Of your team leaves Filipa Rosetacouncilor of Housing and municipal worksdaughter of Helena Roseta, author of the Housing Bases Law.
On this exit, the mayor Lisboeta only states that it is a “New Cycle”, that requires a “New team” reef “New Blood”. Guarantees that there was no failure, but considers that the current team is better than the previous And that, at this moment, new ideas and a new energy are needed.
“What she suffered from the attacks made to her. She is, and I say here, the councilwoman who has done the most for housing in the last 30 years. It’s a thank you for your life,” he concludes.
