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The motion also demands that the responsible entities provide a “detailed technical identification of the causes of the prolonged outages.”
The Leiria City Council approved a motion today demanding the full restoration of power and communications in all parishes of the municipality, calling for structural improvements to these infrastructures.
Luís Miguel Albuquerque, president of the Ourém Town Council, is worried because many people still have homes with damaged roofs. Large parts of the council area remain without electricity.
The president of Alvaiázere's Municipal Chamber, João Paulo Guerreiro, assesses the situation in his municipality, which he described as severely “devastated” by the passage of storm Kristin. According to the mayor, “it will be difficult to restore the entirety of the electricity supply”, at a time when, more than a week after the storm, only 60% of customers already have electricity — a situation that also looks pessimistic regarding communications, as was evident during the interview with CNN.
Prime minister Luís Montenegro ‘returned to the field’ today to visit a company in Pombal – and was tackled over the continuing lack of electricity in parts of the municipality. The post PM tackled over continuing electricity failures appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The local authority explains that the scale of the damage makes immediate restoration across the whole municipality impossible, but assures that every effort is being made to fully restore power.
The Socialist candidate urged the Government to provide a 'swift response' to the needs of communities affected by the bad weather.
The mayor of Oleiros said today that more than 70% of the territory is without mobile communications or experiencing instability, at a time when the number of people without electricity is “decreasing significantly”.
The mayor of Proença-a-Nova today acknowledged losses of €20 million and told the Lusa news agency that the priority is to restore power, while the municipality distributes food to people and animals.
The mayor of Ourém is outraged after learning that the restoration of power across the municipality could take two weeks.
Storm Kristin again exposed vulnerabilities in Portugal's electricity and telecommunications infrastructure. A week after the storm that hit much of the country, thousands of people remain without power, Internet or telephone. Experts say that, despite the 'inevitability' of the phenomenon's effects, it would have been possible to 'mitigate the effects upstream'.
The presidential candidate refuses to comment on the ministers' actions, saying he will do so when he is President of the Republic.
Most of the affected customers are in Leiria.
The meeting includes the Ministers of Economy and Infrastructure, mayors and businesspeople. At the moment, nearly 150,000 people are without power. Marcelo wants to return to the affected areas.
Demand for these devices has increased due to power outages caused by Storm Kristin.
“E-Redes has done as much as it can in a very difficult situation,” said the Minister for the Environment and Energy, when confronted by journalists about the delay in restoring electricity to areas affected by Storm Kristin. This morning, 161,000 customers still had no access to electricity, 110,000 of these customers concentrated in Leiria. The minister ...
Carlos Lopes, mayor of Figueiró dos Vinhos, met with residents who were severely affected by Storm Kristin.
Forty per cent of the municipality rely on generators that serve fewer than a thousand residents.
Luís Lopes, the councillor responsible for Civil Protection in Leiria, gives an update on the damage caused by the recent rains. “From the assessment we carried out with E-Redes yesterday, we still had approximately 67% of people without an electricity supply,” he says.
Live on Rádio Observador, the president of Leiria City Council, Gonçalo Lopes, says that last night's rain worsened certain situations. The mayor reveals that 50,000 homes are without electricity.
The president of Batalha Town Council says it is not yet possible to quantify the damage. Regarding the Government's measures, André Sousa calls them “a good start” but asks for more.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa says the immediate priority in the affected areas is to restore electricity and communications after widespread outages that have left almost 200,000 customers without power and some communities—such as Colmeias and Memória in Leiria—isolated. Speaking after a journey to Ferreira do Zêzere during which he was “almost always without communications”, he warned of long‑standing structural weaknesses, urged caution and calm, and called for a collective, coordinated State response with preventive measures to manage the emergency.
Depression Kristin has left roads impassable and thousands of homes without electricity and water. The Government has declared a state of calamity for 60 municipalities as Civil Protection warns of continued flood risk in the coming days. This minute-by-minute report tracks the evolving weather conditions in Portugal and the emergency response, including infrastructure impacts, mobilised resources and short-term forecasts guiding recovery decisions.
Storm Kristin swept across Portugal, entering near Leiria and causing widespread destruction particularly in the Centre and West. By 22:00 on Wednesday the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection had logged around 5,400 incidents; high winds uprooted trees, ripped roofs from buildings and disrupted services. Local authorities and Civil Protection have been responding minute-by-minute to damage and casualties, although casualty figures were reported inconsistently during the day. The situation remains dynamic as emergency teams continue operations and meteorological services monitor the depression’s evolution over the coming hours.