BU accuses the central bloc of “playing with serious things” and delaying the country’s development by postponing decisions such as a new airport.

On Tuesday, BE accused the central bloc of “playing with serious things” and delaying the country’s development by delaying decisions such as building a new airport because a decade later it was “obviously concluded” that the best place was Alcochete.

“The conclusion demonstrates what was already obvious to tens of thousands of people, if not the entire country: there is a constant delay in strategic decisions, and the delay of the country is a delay in the opinion of the central bloc,” he criticized BE parliamentary leader Pedro Filipe Soares in statements to journalists , in the first reaction to the preliminary report on the location of the new Lisbon airport, presented on Tuesday.

In the words of the bloc’s parliamentary leader, “the PSD is moving forward, the PS is moving forward,” and more than ten years later, the “same obvious conclusion” was reached, namely that “the best place is Alcochete.”

“Why do we wait so long to do the obvious? It is Portugal’s delay that is linked to the relations of the central bloc and shows that PS and PSD are often part of the problem, not part of the solution, they are part of the backwardness of the country and this prevents us from moving forward,” he criticized.

According to Pedro Filipe Soares, the position of both Prime Minister António Costa and PSD leader Luis Montenegro is a caricature and shows that the PS and PSD are “playing serious things.”

“The Prime Minister says the policy decision will be passed on to an independent technical committee, the independent technical committee decides, but in the end the decision doesn’t mean much and passes everything on to the next government,” he lamented.

As for Montenegro, which has said this independent work is needed and has now announced it will “set up an internal working group”, the bloc’s leader pointed to an “electoral calculation” in this debate that he believes “demonstrates how they are unable to make important decisions.”

An independent technical committee identified Alcochete as the most advantageous solution for a new airport among two viable options, according to a report released Tuesday.

According to a report published on the website of the Independent Technical Committee (ITC).

According to the preliminary report of the independent technical committee responsible for the strategic environmental assessment of increasing airport capacity in the Lisbon region, which examined nine options, the solutions of Humberto Delgado + Campo de Tiro de Alcochete are viable until only Alcochete remains with minimal with two lanes, and Humberto Delgado + Vendas Novas, until only Vendas Novas remains, also with at least two lanes.