Local authority gives voice to citizens

25th of April commemorations in Matosinhos

The municipality of Matosinhos marked yesterday, April 25th, the 49th anniversary of the April 25th Revolution, which put an end to dictatorship.

The Freedom Day celebrations began with the flag hoisting ceremony, outside the Town Hall Building, with the participation of the Mayor, Luísa Salgueiro, the President of the Municipal Assembly, Palmira Macedo, and the President of the Parish Councils of Matosinhos and Leça da Palmeira, Paulo Carvalho.

The fanfare of the Bombeiros Voluntários de Leixões was also present.

The celebrations continued inside, more specifically in the Noble Hall of the Town Hall, with the solemn commemorative session of April 25th, in which members of the Municipal Executive, the Municipal Assembly and other entities were present.

This year, the Municipality of Matosinhos decided to give the voice to citizens who represent different realities of our democratic society.

The session was conducted by Palmira Macedo. The students from Escola Básica do Padrão da Légua, Rodrigo Fernandes and Bianca Moraes, spoke about the importance of April 25th, a subject approached in class assembly, under the scope of the Pedagogical Innovation Project.

Representing the Young Municipal Assembly (a project aimed at raising the awareness of the juvenile community to participative citizenship and to the importance of its role in the construction and development of juvenile policy measures) was the student Rodrigo Pinheiro, from João Gonçalves Zarco Secondary School, who spoke about the relevance of the Carnation Revolution.

The 25th of April is also part of the training curriculum of ADEIMA's +Literacy Project. Representing the participants of this project, trainees Isabel Carapuço and Rosa Araújo read one of the texts built in the training on the theme.

This was followed by interventions from the political forces represented in the Matosinhos Municipal Assembly by the members Teresa Raquel Teixeira da Silva Martins dos Santos (CDS-PP), Albano Lemos Pires (PAN), Álvaro Manuel Santos Costa (CHEGA) José Francisco Vilela Leirós (IL), Nádia Leal da Silva Marçal (BE), Sandra Maria da Costa Magalhães (CDU), Paula Cristina da Cruz Mesquita (António Parada Sim), Ana Maria Fernandes de Almeida Poiares Baptista (PSD), Miguel dos Santos Rodrigues (PS).

The session was closed by the Mayor of the municipality, Luísa Salgueiro.