Filipe Amorim / LUSA
Maria Lúcia Amaral, Minister of Internal Administration
“I don’t know what failed. I can’t say exactly what failed.” But Maria Lúcia Amaral will try to avoid failures.
The Minister of Internal Affairs reacted to Kristin’s depression with a phrase that she repeated on different days and contexts: “Collective learning”.
When she spoke to journalists for the first time last week, Maria Lúcia Amaral said that this was a moment of “collective learning” in the country.
When I was in the most affected municipality, in Leiria, listening to the City Council’s response to communications failures, I told the mayor that we are in “collective learning”.
An expression that, admitted the presidential candidate himself, on Saturday.
This Monday, in Alvaiázere, Maria Lúcia Amaral said this time that “the system is complex and the entities coordinating the civil protection system take great care to ensure collaboration between everyone”.
Returning to Leiria, and before participating in a meeting at the local fire station, the minister added that it is necessary to “take into account that the needs are many, from different sides, and that this was a crisis with multiple aspects, of communications and power failure, which may have contributed to the absence being felt for longer”.
Asked what failed to respond to the storm, the Minister of Internal Affairs replied: “I don’t know what failed. I can’t say exactly what failed“.
Maria Lúcia Amaral guaranteed, however, that the entities that make up the civil protection system “take great care in ensuring collaboration between everyone”.
And he also assured that he was working together with the mayor of Alvaiázere “so that these types of failures or absences do not happen”.
