One year after the Glória elevator derailment, which occurred on September 3, 2025, and caused 16 dead and 24 injured, the PS at the Lisbon Municipal Assembly will insist on creating an ad hoc commission to follow up on the municipal response to the accident. The first proposal was rejected more than three months ago by the right-wing majority at the AML, with the votes against from PSD, CDS-PP, IL and Chega.
The socialist Hugo Gaspar, leader of the PS bench at the AML, stated that there are facts too serious not to be scrutinized and that there continue to be too many important questions to consider the case closed. The PS emphasized that indemnification processes remain incomplete and that victims and families say they continue to await answers, support and accountability. Of the 40 indemnification processes, only four have been concluded.
The ad hoc commission does not intend to replace the GPIAAF or the Public Ministry, which are investigating the accident independently and expect to present reports by the end of the first quarter of 2027. Rather, it intends to exercise a different competence: to monitor and oversee the actions of the Lisbon municipality and Carris, a company whose capital belongs entirely to the municipality, including the implementation of safety recommendations and support measures for victims.
The municipal company Carris is already projecting a new elevator for 2029. The PS argued that Lisbon cannot go directly from the 2025 tragedy to a new elevator in 2029 without scrutinizing what failed in a century-old transport system and in a company entirely owned by the municipality. To mark one year since the accident, Lisbon City Hall inaugurated a memorial paying tribute to the victims at Largo da Oliveirinha, near Calçada da Glória.
