The President of the Republic said this Thursday that the Government and local authorities “fully understand each other” on the financial burden of next year’s World Youth Day, stressing that the agreement “it’s already written“.
Government reaches agreement with Coins and will pay (even) more for Youth Day
Asked if he played a mediating role in resolving the impasse between the Lisbon Chamber and the Government regarding the financial burden of World Youth Day, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa replied that “no mediation needed“.
“There is no need for mediation, [Governo e autarquias] are fully understood. The agreement is more than closed, it is sealed, it is already in writing, it was already in the heads and hearts of the peoplenow in some points it has become full”, said the head of state, at the end of a visit to the spaces that will host this religious event, between August 1 and 6, 2023.
According to this Wednesday’s edition of the newspaper Público, the Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Ana Catarina Mendes, and the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, reached “a consensus” at the World Youth Day.
The newspaper reported that the government agreed to assume “the financial burden” that the autarky previously accepted, even during the presidency of the socialist Fernando Medina, and that were rejected by “ifinancial availability” Demonstrated by the executive of the Social Democrat Carlos Moedas.
This agreement was reached on the eve of Marcelo Rebelo Sousa’s visit to the land between Loures and Lisbon, which will welcome hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims next year.
asked about thismoment“, the President of the Republic rejected any “influential judiciaryin this sense: “It was pure chance, it was already underway. Credit belongs to everyone involved. It is the merit of the Government, the Mayor of Lisbon, the Mayor of Loures, the Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon (…) and unity was achieved”.
Source: Observadora
