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The Socialist majority rejected a Social Democratic proposal, supported by Chega, to centralise data on damage, costs, and post-storm recovery on the municipal portal.
Left-wing parties are requesting clarification from the Lisbon City Council regarding the criteria that led to the removal of Francisco Frazão and Rita Rato from the two municipal institutions.
Cascais wants to go further with free mobility. After buses, the municipality is now considering extending that policy to the train. How much would it cost to make this mode of transport free? Listen to the new episode of Economia dia a dia, Expresso's daily podcast, hosted by Juliana Simões.
Guimarães will have buses free for residents, promises the mayor elected on 12 October. In an interview with ECO/Local Online, Ricardo Araújo explains that there had been an agreement from his predecessor to grant exclusivity to the current operator. "It will be reversed and we will renegotiate a new agreement, with a view to making services free, increasing frequency, ...
Ricardo Araújo won control of Guimarães City Council in one of the big surprises of the election night of 12 October, sending the Socialist Party (PS) into opposition; the PS had been led in the previous 12 years by the socialist Domingos Bragança, as part of a long 36-year socialist rule. In an interview with ECO/Local Online on the occasion of his first 100 days in office, the Social Democrat who ...
The installation of “15 to 20 cameras” will take place in the busiest areas, and the town council expects them to be fully operational by the start of next year at the latest.
Community policing will be aimed at the education community, senior citizens, people with disabilities and those experiencing homelessness.
Councillor Ricardo Silva said that, besides protecting the pavement, it is also necessary to upskill the pavement-layers.
