Beja: Parties differ on the rejection of the public partnership waters of Baixo Alentejo.
The Municipal Assembly of Beja rejected the formation of public partnership waters of Baixo Alentejo, to be signed between the Portuguese State and the eight municipalities in the district of Beja. The parties (PS, PCP e PSD) have very different visions form of management.
The 16 votes to (15 CDU and 1 do BE), They got the better of the 15 votes in favor of PS, since the PSD and Movements by Matthias abstained and so was frustrated the proposed creation of the Lower Alentejo Waters, which would include the municipalities of Aljustrel, Almodovar, Canyons, Beja, Castro Verde, Mértola, Moura and Ourique.
In a statement to local authority Beja, Hair led PS, principal “motor” the project through the EMAS, justifies the same “would ensure the Beja county investment of about 20 million, with a concentration greater than 50% the first ten years of partnership, where the amount available for investment in improving infrastructure in "low" water and sanitation reach 10 million”, adding that the total of eight municipalities, “it would be possible to invest 86 million to serve their populations in water and sanitation infrastructure”.
The city council justified the project “not entail any increase in the price of water in Beja” and that this would be “an anchor municipality taking responsibility to develop into a regional character company”, arguing that “privatization is not concerned”, shooting that the rights of workers EMAS “They would be guaranteed, since the model provides for the voluntary integration”, Remata.
Turn the PCP maintains that it was “an attempt by the PS and some of their elected, taking advantage of a situational majority in municipal district chambers, to abandon water management in low”, remembering that the consequences of this process would “the significant increase in prices, the extinction of EMAS, labor disruption for workers involved”, considering that the position of the Municipal Assemblies of Castro Verde and Beja rejected the approval of the establishment of the company of the Lower Alentejo Waters, “It was a courageous and just decision”, conclude.
In a press release, Concelhia the PSD of the Beja, Pinel presided by José Fernandes, stresses that “adhesion, failed in Municipal Assembly, He not merited by the House to clarify to residents, it is too important a matter and, that is why, It must be countersigned”, justify.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
