President of the Board starts crying live. “It’s scary”

Journalist tried to comfort Isabel Costa, president of São Simão de Litém, Pombal. An exciting conversation.

Visibly shaken and tired, she had the strength to run from the nursing home to the journalist Cláudia Valente de Oliveira. I knew they were going to go live on .

Isabel Costa is president of the Parish Council of São Simão de Litém, Pombalone of the places affected by the Kristin depression. No house has electricity or communications yet.

“This is scary, mainly because of the lack of energy and communications”started by reporting.

In that parish, “everyone cares”, but the lar This is the situation that worries the Board most, because it has 52 users and provides home support to alone people. And at home, the generator is having faults.

Furthermore, there are landslides, collapses, and there are no conditions for circulation on the roads.

And then the criticism comes in: “On our part, the roads are unobstructed for E-networks and operators of communications enter the field”.

After a meeting last night, at Pombal City Hall, E-redes gave some hope about the return of energy supply. “But we no longer have hope. We will only have hope when the light comes. The number of loose, distorted cables is very worrying.”

The president of the Board said that lacks responsiveness for so many phone calls and messages.

And he repeated the repairs: “I haven’t seen anyone from communications yet. We need someone from telecommunications, in full, in this parish and in others”.

They also arrived few tiles until now, for repairing roofs destroyed by the wind.

Boycott?

Isabel Costa had already said that no one will vote on Sunday, in the second round of the presidential elections: “Even if they take me to prison, on Sunday in São Simão no one votes.”

This Thursday morning, he clarified that he did not boycott the elections. I just wanted to say: “The school has to open, the streets are not safe, there are no signs”.
“We have to create conditions to be safe. For me, the elections are secondary.”

And then he explained that Those who don’t want to vote are the locals: “My population refuses to go and vote, they have already told me that they are going to close the school center (where the voting place would be), stand at the door and block it and not allow elections to take place”.

Emotion

Isabel Costa has felt the solidarity of the other council presidents in the area.

While repeating that technical help is needed for roofs, the time has come for emotion live on television.

“It’s a constant distress: It’s getting out of bed and seeing if people are alive!”

“Before I leave, I have to call the fire department to find out if I can leave the house. I have no communications, I don’t have SIRESP, I have nothing!”

Tears. The journalist asking for calm, while supporting her with one arm.

“I apologize, it is inevitable”, reacted the president of the Board.

The dialogue ended. And the journalist wanted to end the live show as quickly as possible to comfort Isabel.