The mayor of Lisbon will have “the seat at the table” that he wanted, in the discussion of the new Lisbon airport. At the end of last week, he saw on television the agreement signed between the Government and the PSD on the studies that will be carried out to determine the location of the new airport, but in the meantime spoke to the prime minister and he already has António Costa’s guarantee that he will be heard in the discussion. For now, he asks that the new infrastructure be close to the city he runs.
Carlos Moedas was clear in the request, during the intervention he made at the Portugal Tourism Summit that takes place this Tuesday. At the forefront of this discussion, which has a deadline of the end of 2023, Moedas warned that no more time should be wasted and that the decision should even come next year: “The necessary studies are being carried out, but we cannot lose more.” time”. And he underlined that “Lisbon airport is Lisbon International Airport” and therefore “it has to be very close to Lisbon and to the people of Lisbon”.
I am not measuring kilometers, I am measuring proximity and this proximity is extremely important for tourism in Lisbon”
This proximity to the location is also “extremely important” for entrepreneurs, said the mayor, at a time when the locations to be studied during the next year are not yet known, but some wishes are already known, namely a new (and more). important) distant hypothesis) placed precisely by the prime minister, Santarém.
Part of the location hypotheses will be indicated by the PSD (which Montijo and Alcochete have already indicated) and the Government (which until now has only pronounced in Santarém) and another part will continue to be put on the table by the technical committee itself. to be set up to assess the location of the new Lisbon airport.
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The mayor – who had admitted to appearing although he was not invited to make this decision – also revealed in his speech that he already knows that he will have “that seat at the table” and that “deciding together is important for Lisbon”. He also promised to “fight for it”, although he promises António Costa that he will be “part of the solution”. For now, he guarantees that he is “happy” that the government and the PSD have reached an agreement.
Airport decision. “I don’t run out of a place at the table, if no one invites me, I show up and sit down,” says Moedas
Source: Observadora
