The PCP requested a hearing in parliament with the Vice Minister and Parliamentary Affairs to discuss the influx of Timorese immigrants to the Alentejo and the measures “that the Government intends to take” for their dignified reception.
In a statement sent to the Lusa agency, the PCP parliamentary group said that the request was delivered this Wednesday to the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees for the hearing of the Vice Minister and Parliamentary Affairs, Ana Catarina Mendes, “while responsible for the immigration area.
The application aims “discuss the existing situation with the influx of Timorese immigrants to the Alentejo and the measures that the Government intends to take to create decent reception conditions for these people”can be read in the statement.
Addressed to the president of that parliamentary commission, the request, signed by the deputy Alma Rivera, refers to the letter addressed to all the parliamentary groups by the Chamber of Serpa, in the district of Beja, on the problem of Timorese immigrants in the county.
The Alentejo municipality requested “the intervention of this sovereign body to resolve the great problem that constitutes the situation” in which “a large number of Timorese immigrants flocked to that municipality.”
“To the extent of its possibilities, and in addition to those within its competence, the municipality sought to help people who were in the most dramatic situation, without accommodation and without any other support,” the lawsuit says.
For this reason, it housed “a few dozen of these immigrants provisionally in a municipal pavilion, as a transitory and recourse solution, given that the facilities in question do not have the minimum conditions to guarantee decent housing on a lasting basis.”
But, “as far as is known, the efforts made by the Municipality of Serpa with the supervised entities responsible for receiving immigrants (…) were unsuccessful, so the situation continues with no solution in sight,” criticized the PCP. . . .
Given this situation, the communist parliamentary group requested an audience with Minister Ana Catarina Mendes, to provide clarification on this matter.
On Monday, at a press conference, the mayor of Serpa, João Efigénio Palma (CDU), “hit the table” and demanded “political intervention” from the Government to resolve the situation of Timorese immigrants in the municipality, since almost 40 were provisionally detained. relocated by the municipality.
Chamber of Serpa gives “knock on the table” for the Government to solve the problem of Timorese immigrants
“This needs political intervention. Us [câmara] We were in solidarity, we were on the side of Social Security to try to solve” the problem and “we will be here to try to collaborate in whatever is possible and necessary,” he said.
But, “now, there has to be a political intervention here and the Government has to understand the great problem, not only the one we are experiencing here in Serpa, but the one we are experiencing throughout the Alentejo with immigration,” he argued.
The mayor estimated that between 150 and 200 Timorese live in the municipality, almost all without work, and the City Council indicated that it has faced, “in recent times”, the “situation of eviction and unemployment of a considerable number”. of “migrant” people of that nationality.
Source: Observadora
