The president of Loulé council’s Municipal Assembly decided on Friday November 25th, to suspend the €104 million 2017 budget meeting, due a PSD complaint that certain Socialist Party councillors should not be able to vote as they run municipal companies or have contracts with the council.
The assembly chief, Adriano Pimpão, said "They are members of the socialist party who are councillors and have leading positions in municipal enterprises."
Finally, a road access law is being used to send tax demands to those whose driveways and forecourt parking areas have access to all Estrada Nacional roads, such as the Algarve’s EN125.
Far from being an April 1st prank, the law passed in October 2015 allows Infraestruturas de Portugal to charge people that have property next to an EN category main road who need to use the road to get to and from their house or business premises.
Eleven animals and birds have been poisoned in the Castro Verde ecological protection zone in the lower Alentejo.
Among the birds found dead are endangered species including a rare Iberian imperial eagle and several Kites.
British consumers have rewarded retailers with solid takings on Black Friday, creating another record day for the event.
An overwhelming amount of the action took place online as shoppers looked for bargains on their mobile phones and computers, leaving shops largely free of the unedifying tussles over discounted goods witnessed in earlier years.
Nearly 200,000 ducks have been slaughtered in the Netherlands in an effort to prevent the further spread of bird flu in northern Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Saturday.
Outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 strain of avian flu have been reported to have hit Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Finland in November.
Portugal’s People-Animals-Nature party’s single MP has informed parliament that since 2001 it has been mandatory that all municipalities have a kennel for stray cats and dogs and that, after 15 years, only 180 of the 308 municipalities have such facilities.
PAN announced today that the Government has budgeted €1 million for the construction of municipal kennels in 2017, but that it rejected a proposal to reduce the VAT on pet food.
Former MP and vice president of the National Policy Committee of the Social Democratic Party between 1989 and 1991, the lawyer Duarte Lima is to face trial in Portugal for the 2009 murder of Rosalina Ribeiro in Brazil.
The Lisbon judiciary has said that unless the case was transferred to Portugal from Brazil, there was risk of the former MP escaping unpunished.
A leading Spanish politician has said that his country would resist attempts by Nicola Sturgeon for Scotland to remain in the EU single market after Brexit.
Esteban Gonzalez Pons is reported to have said that Sturgeon’s proposals for a special deal for Scotland are “impossible” and would be opposed by the Spanish government.
