The Leiria Region considers the maximum 60% support to municipalities to address the damage caused by the storms at the beginning of the year to be manifestly insufficient. This aid is made available through the Municipal Emergency Fund.
The storms that occurred at the beginning of the year caused significant damage in the municipalities of the Leiria region, leading local authorities to request state support for the recovery of affected infrastructure.
The position of the Leiria Region comes at a time when several municipal councils face high reconstruction costs, which the available funding cannot adequately cover. The maximum 60% amount is seen as insufficient to respond to the scale of the damages recorded.
The Municipal Emergency Fund is the mechanism provided by the State to support municipalities in emergency situations, but local officials argue that the criteria and amounts of this support should be revised given the severity of the damage caused by these weather phenomena.
