The Guimarães City Council approved the revision of the Municipal Master Plan (PDM) with the abstention of the Socialist Party. The mayor, Ricardo Araújo, stressed that the executive fulfilled in just 11 months a priority assumed with the people of Guimarães, considering that the municipality waited too long for this revision.
Ricardo Araújo chose not to restart the process from scratch, which would have delayed the presentation of the document by another two or three years, instead improving the technical proposal already in progress. With a new political direction, it was possible to increase by approximately 20% the land classified as urban.
On the opposition side, socialist councilor Ricardo Costa justified the PS abstention, arguing that despite the improvements introduced, the PDM does not serve the interests of the people of Guimarães. Costa also accused Ricardo Araújo of incoherence, recalling that he had classified the previous proposal, developed over the seven years of PS governance, as a patchwork quilt without strategy, when, according to Costa, the body of the document now approved is essentially the same.
The proposal now goes to the Municipal Assembly. If approved, it will be published, thus concluding the PDM revision process.
