Juntos pelo Povo (JPP) says it is unsurprised that the PSD rejected the proposal for a parliamentary hearing of the entities involved in the ‘Cortel’ Case.
The request for a parliamentary hearing, presented by the JPP, of the “Cortel” Case was rejected by the five PSD deputies in the Housing and Infrastructure Commission.
It should be recalled that three apartments in the controlled housing block were being improperly used for local accommodation purposes.
In a press release, the JPP stated:
“Juntos Pelo Povo wanted to see the contours of the case that transformed housing, built with public money, into Local Accommodation.
Alleging that it was a municipal matter, the PSD deputies prevented the hearing of Cristina Pedra, Miguel Silva Gouveia, the councilor responsible for Housing, and the president of Cortel.
In addition to the lack of transparency, the case reveals double standards, because in previous situations, such as the case of Monte and the case of the petrol station in Caniço, the Social Democratic Party never shied away from insisting on the hearing of the Mayors of Funchal and Santa Cruz.
Housing shortages are a very serious problem, and affect thousands of Madeirans and Porto Santons, and have led all candidates for the October municipal elections to create and put forward viable housing solutions.
The Cortel Case has exposed one of the many faces of this discrepancy, and the lack of a parliamentary hearing prevents the analysis of the problem by the members of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.
As usual in sensitive matters, the PSD opts for the prevention of sensitive material from coming under the scrutiny of elected parliamentarians, diminishing the work of ALRAM deputies.
The JPP repudiates this type of behaviour as harmful to one of the functions of elected deputies, which is the supervision of governance, whether regional or local.
Samantha Gannon
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