The Parliamentary Group of Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP) will summon the Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Rodrigues, to the Regional Legislative Assembly for a hearing. The party wants to find out what studies the Executive, led by Miguel Albuquerque, is relying on for the construction of new golf courses, a market they believe the Region should invest in.
According to a statement sent by the JPP to the newsrooms, the party understands that, in view of the “unbridled investment announced by the Regional Government, as public money, in the construction of new golf courses and expansion of others, namely in Ponta do Pargo, Faial, Porto Santo, Santo da Serra and Palheiro Ferreiro, the Madeiran population has the duty to be properly informed of this political option of the exclusive responsibility of the PSD/CDS.”
The party led by Élvio Sousa says it is surprised “the complicit silence of the CDS partner of the governing alliance, which in this as in all other matters shows signs of not being heard or found, limits itself to submitting to the orders of the PSD, after having spent the last electoral campaigns promising that the priority should be to build more housing and to bring more income to families.”
The JPP states that the PSD/CDS coalition, as well as Miguel Albuquerque “live in an invented reality, without any sensitivity to the real problems that affect families, young people, the middle and working classes, all of them unable to access housing, to live on lower wages than on the mainland, but for PSD/CDS, building new golf courses is the main priority. And this, he says, is a ‘future vote decider.’ ‘
Concluding, he explains that he wants the Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructures to present the “grounded studies for the political option of providing the Region with five golf courses, he wants to know how many years it will take to recover the investment; what is the share of the tourist market that comes to Madeira exclusively to play golf; which entities carried out these studies; and what is the current weight of the golf market in the regional economy?”
Samantha Gannon
info at madeira-weekly.com
