Rodrigo Antunes / Lusa
“I would like to go out on the street without having cockroaches, rats and trash.” The 45-year-old PSD candidate for Amadora’s House promised to eradicate the Cova da Moura neighborhood during the next term, advocating decent resettlement and the end of the tents in the county.
The PSD candidate for the presidency of the Amadora Chamber, Suzana Garciawhich in the municipalities of 2021 for the socialist Carla Tavares, He says he will “eradicate the Moura pit.”
“I already have a program made with the Ministry of Infrastructure. We have been working for about three months in the eradication of Cova da Moura and I will really eradicate it all”Said the social democratic candidate, in statements to Lusa.
Suzana Garcia explained that the program that is being developed with the government provides for the demolition of all illegal constructions and tents, ensuring the subsequent resettlement of more than 2,000 families in new dwellings.
The neighborhood of, one of the largest and oldest informal genesis neighborhoods in Portugal, began to grow in the 1970s, especially with the arrival of migrants from former Portuguese colonies in Africa, particularly from Cape Verde, but also from Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe.
The intervention in the neighborhood will include the Creation of public facilitiesgreen spaces, public housing for the middle class and “modern infrastructures,” says the PSD candidate.
Also in the housing area, the candidate intends Build 2,500 fires For the middle class, with affordable incomes, stressing that Amadora “was the only municipality in the Lisbon metropolitan area that has not built housing in the last 12 years”.
Another of Suzana Garcia’s priorities is the Urban hygienewhich classified as “One of the worst cancers in the city”Promising an immediate intervention plan.I liked to go out on the street without having cockroachesrats and garbage. I liked Amadora to be an example of a reference in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, ”he said.
In the health area, the candidacy proposes the construction of three new health centers, namely in the wind, Venda Nova and Alfragide.
Suzana Garcia also defended the creation of 2,000 new vacancies in day care centers through the construction of four new infrastructure.
The PSD candidate faces in the race to the current president, the current president, Vítor Ferreira (PS), who took office after the resignation of Carla Tavares, elected deputy to the European Parliament, besides João Pimenta Lopes (PCP/PEV), Anabela Ferreira (BE), Rui Paulo Sousa (arrives) and Hugo Lourenço (free).