According to the municipality, seven thousand licenses will have to be canceled due to lack of insurance.
The new rules by the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, for Local Accommodation in the city are more flexible than those presented in March.
The newspaper writes, this Tuesday, that the ratios for absolute containment zones and relative containment zones will be double those proposed before the public consultation.
On the same topic, the chamber says that seven thousand licenses will be canceled due to lack of insurance.
However, it is expected that, once the existing records in Lisbon are cleaned, new accommodation may appear, even in areas that until now were considered to be in absolute containment.
New version of the Municipal Local Accommodation Regulation will be discussed next week
Carlos Moedas decided to schedule the discussion on the amendment to the Municipal Local Accommodation Regulation (RMAL) for November 27, refusing the PS’s request for the topic to be debated this Monday.
A source from the social democrat’s office told Lusa that the change to the RMAL was scheduled for that date, without providing further information, including when the period for suspending new local accommodation (AL) registrations in the city ends.
The deadline would end on November 7th, but, according to an order from the Mayor of Lisbon, dated November 3rd, it was suspended due to the limited management regime for local authority bodies, following the “vicissitudes” of the electoral process.
The suspension has been in effect since October 12th, the date of the until the new elected bodies took office, which took place on November 11th.
According to the order, from that moment on, “the counting of that period of suspension” is resumed.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, PS councilor Alexandra Leitão considered that the period for suspending new AL licenses “has already ended”, because Carlos Moedas’ order uses the expression “suspension” instead of “interruption”, meaning that, from the time of taking office, only the days remaining until the end of the period are counted, in this case four days, from November 3rd to 7th.
Thus, resuming the count since November 11th, the deadline ended on the 15th, Saturday.
“We are in this worrying situation”, stated the socialist, following the first meeting of the new municipal executive, in which Carlos Moedas said he will present a proposal to regulate the AL on November 27th, a date he considers to be “the last day of the suspension period”.
After being approved by the council, the initiative must be submitted to the municipal assembly.
