Évora: PS and PCP finally understand it is about CIMAC. “annual breakdown” management.
The Socialist José Calixto was elected on Tuesday, president of the Intermunicipal Community of Central Alentejo (CIMAC), after being found a solution between PS and CDU to an annual presidency between candidates of these parties.
Since the local elections in October, the CIMAC had no president, based on the understanding that PS and PCP had on the election results in the district of Evora.
At a meeting of the inter-municipal council, held held in early December, was a vote for the presidency of CIMAC where the PS candidate reached eight votes against six of the CDU candidate. The PS candidate was the Socialist mayor of Reguengos de Monsaraz, José Calixto, and that the CDU candidate the president of the Chamber of Évora, Communist Carlos Pinto de Sá.
In the last municipal elections, PS regained the greatest number of chambers in the Évora district, six, ahead of the CDU, which was reduced to five, including Évora, while the other three municipalities remain in “hands” independent movements.
A CDU, claimed that “there were no two cumulative Bulk, as required by law”. in election, “eight cameras, six of the PS and of Borba and Redondo, led by independent movements, They voted for the Socialist candidate and the remaining municipalities, which has the most voters, They voted for the CDU candidate”.
Five months after the elections, According was finally. The presidency of the CIMAC will be divided into four-year terms, the first being the mayor Reguengos Monsaraz, José Calixto, do PS, followed by the second of the mayor Evora, Carlos Pinto de Sá, CDU, with this rotation to keep the following two years.
Also the vice-presidencies will work in rotated annually, being awake alternating positions between Jose Calixto and Pinto Sa and between them an independent Straight Antony (Redondo) and Joseph Mourinha (Estremoz) in another.
Now and after the agreement reached, in statements to Radio Belfry, the then President of CIMAC, José Calixto, said that the solution found for the presidency of this body is an "annual breakdown between the two main political forces", or Socialist Party (PS) and Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU).
So, José Calixto (PS), Mayor of Reguengos de Monsaraz, assumes the mandate this year and, sequentially, in the four years of the municipal term in the presidency alternating system is ensured by the now president-elect and Carlos Pinto de Sá (CDU)", Mayor of the Municipality of Évora.
Asked about time-consuming negotiations circumstance, José Calixto, Chairman of the municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz, desdramatiza and removes a "catastrophic vision" of penalty processes, justifying that were "delegated functions in the previous table" so that everything followed from to "normality".
For or socialist, find the missing "political consequences of local elections" in order to be woken up the "regional political role in a balanced manner between the two political forces", which in their view is now "are represented in the presidency of the Intermunicipal Council".
Asked about different political views of the same processes, the elected President of CIMAC points out that "according to the law have to decide unanimously", why it maintains that "it is not a different political view, but the ability to achieve consensus processes and projects ", ensuring that "there is no break in the strategy, because the instruments as in the Pact for Development and Cohesion ", exemplified.
On the dialogue between the main party forces of this body, Jose Calixto says that the Socialists initially were surprised "not to consider a process that historically accepted in the CIMAC; who had the highest number of cameras indicated the president ", which in his view "does not mean that dialogue ceases to exist". The proof "is the agreement and the appointment of a second secretary", ensuring that in their president "does not administer that discuss party political issues because the CIMAC is to manage a set of resources in favor of 14 counties", he stressed.
Photo: radio Bell (Carlos Sá Pinto, José Antonio Calixto and Reto).
