Dan Joergensen He will be accompanied by the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro, and the Minister of the Environment, Maria da Graça Carvalho.
The European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, Dan Joergensen, will travel to Marinha Grande (Leiria) this Friday with the Minister of the Presidency, on a visit to the affected areas.
Joergensen accompanies António Leitão Amaro numa “visit to affected areas of the municipality”which starts at 10:15 at the Municipal Chamber of Marinha Grande, and which is also attended by the Minister of Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, in accordance with the agenda of the Minister of the Presidency, released this Friday.
On Thursday, the president of the European Commission, would be in “Portugal to collaborate with the authorities, who continue to assess the full extent of the damage”in a visit that was already planned – focused on the themes of accessible accommodation and interconnections – and which will now include this dimension.
On Wednesday, through the same social network, Dan Joergensen indicated that the community executive is available to provide support, as well as in “close contact” with the authorities in Portugal and with the European Network of Electricity Transmission System Operators due to outages resulting from the storm.
Leitão Amaro, the published note also reads, goes to the Leiria Hospital at 12:30 pm, the Figueira da Foz Hospital at 2 pm, and, two hours later, he will be in Meirinhas, in the municipality of Pombal, for a “visit to the affected areas of the Industrial Park”.
The passage of depression Kristin through mainland Portugal, on Wednesday, left a trail of destruction, causing at least five deaths, according to Civil Protection, several injured and displaced. The Câmara da Marinha Grande counts yet another fatality in the municipality.
Falling trees and structures, cutting or conditioning of roads and transport services, especially railway lines, closing schools and power, water and communications cuts were the main material consequences of the storm.
Leiria, where the depression entered the territory, Coimbra and Santarém are the districts that recorded the most damage.
The Government between 00:00 on Wednesday and 23:59 on February 1st for around 60 municipalities, a number that could increase.
