Africa-Press – Cape verde. The president of Praia City Council, Francisco Carvalho, today accused the Government of “trying to suffocate” the municipality with its “low political games” and of “competing” with the municipality.The mayor made these accusations this morning during the V special extraordinary session of the Praia Municipal Assembly, which will analyze and debate the state of the municipality over the last three years, having considered that the actions of the Government of Ulisses Correia e Silva have been “ extremely serious” and could cause “great damage” in the country.
As the mayor from Praia recalled, the current council team supported by the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) won the 2020 local elections in a “democratic and legitimate” way, but the MpD “refused to accept defeat” and since so it has “tried to suffocate” the municipality.
For Francisco Carvalho, this is an “extremely serious” situation, but it has not stopped the current team from working and continuing to do more for the residents of the country’s capital.
He explained that in 2019, on the eve of the 2020 local elections, the Government supported by the Movement for Democracy (MpD) transferred around one million contos to the municipality, while the current chamber received only half of this amount.
“From the moment we arrived at the chamber, the MpD Government cut everything that was transfers in addition to what is mandatory by law such as the municipal financing fund where we do not have a program contract, we do not have extra financing, we only have a just over a thousand contos from the Ministry of Social Inclusion”, he reported.
Another situation that Francisco Carvalho considers “serious” is that at the moment the Ministry of Infrastructure is carrying out work on bathrooms and replacing ceilings in neighborhoods of the capital, interventions that, in his opinion, fall under the jurisdiction of municipal.
On the other hand, he also said that instead of the president of the MpD presenting proposals and ideas for the future of the country, hope for Cape Verdeans and innovative projects, Ulisses Correia e Silva says that “the goal is to take over the Praia council” .
For the mayor of Praia, the MpD has played a “low game” and “in a cunning way” and is unaware of the damage it is doing to the mentality of young people, who are the future of the country.
Representing the municipal bench of the Movement for Democracy (MpD, opposition), deputy João Cabral made a negative assessment of the current council team, stating that the country’s capital is today in “accelerated degradation, without ideas, without projects, without programs and with enormous losses” that could “become even greater”.
According to the politician, illegal constructions “have been increasing every day”, the issue of posture and urbanity are “an illusion”, the sidewalks “have been taken over and robbed” by street vendors and sanitation is in a “critical and calamitous phase ”.
For his part, the leader of the PAICV municipal bench (power), Aquiles Barbosa, who devalued the opposition’s statements, highlighted that despite the difficulties faced in terms of the covid-19 pandemic, droughts, the war in Ukraine and also the Without collaboration from the Government, the state of the municipality “is good”.
However, he explained that in the face of these obstacles, which “negatively conditioned” the life of the municipality, the chamber managed to raise funds through its own internal means, but also through international cooperation to work and managed to solve a large part of the problems that afflict the capital of the country.
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