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Paulo Portas and Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
In Vale de Cambra, the former CDS leader explained: “I like to help those who helped me, so I made a break in my professional life.”
The former president of CDS-PP and former minister Paulo Portas appealed today in Vale de Cambra, Aveiro, when voting in “good managers” like those who, said, preside over the six chambers that the party lead in the country.
In a campaign action in the city center of Aveiro district and Porto Metropolitan area, the former governor gave as an example of this management capacity José Pinheiro, that now his third term ceases by the CDS in the presidency of the municipality, and claimed to deposit the same confidence in the candidate for his successor, André Martins Silvawhich is currently councilor in the same executive.
“I like to help those who helped me, so I did a break in my professional lifewhich is very full, and wanted to give a sign [de apoio] This team of Cambra Valley ”, began by referring Paulo Portas.
Arguing that “what is at stake in these municipal elections is to get good managers Of the common thing, ”the former governor recalled later that when he was president of the CDS, he always sought to inspire the party’s mayors to realize“ three or four things, regardless of the specificity of his county ”, and that, from this list, the first was the first tax reduction.
Valley of Cambra, from his perspective, he fulfilled this request because “CDS management led to a Reduction of IRS, IMI and spills ”.
Paulo Portas’ second instruction was that the Payment to suppliers If it did as soon as possible, “because that makes the economy work”, and also in this case the municipality respected the leader’s will, as “pays for 14 days, which is much less than the overall average” in Portuguese municipalities and “means competent management”.
The third request was decrease in debt Municipal, what the CDS chamber also complied: “When this team arrived, the debt was at 29 million euros and is now in 6.7, which means that there are many less charges for future generations.”
Regarding the general benefit of the party that led in the elections next Sunday, Paulo Portas admitted: “I have heard that the CDs has good opportunities to keep the six chambers that governs, be the fourth municipal party and continue to have a lot of influence in the territory. This is only done with good managers, with qualified people, so I have this hope. But we will see ”.
When asked about the effect that the growth of the municipal representation of the He arrives You may have from Sunday, the former minister avoided conjectures. “I prefer to praise what I know is good than spending my time to criticize what I don’t know,” he concluded.
In addition to André Martins Silva by CDS-PP, in the electoral race Vale de Cambra also participates Miguel Aguiar Soares for the PSD, Nelson Martins by PS, Manuel Campos for the arrival and Serafim Tavares by CDU.
In the municipality with 147.3 square kilometers and about 25,900 inhabitants, the Camaario Executive currently includes, in addition to five elected CDS, also a PS councilman and a PSD.
