“On 7 and 8 December 2022 and following the occurrence of an extreme meteorological event, there was significant damage in all parishes in the municipality of Lisbon”, reads the dispatch from the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas (PSD).

The assessment of damages should focus on the damage suffered in infrastructure and municipal and parish equipment, damage to housing, both in structural terms and in terms of the goods and belongings of the injured parties, and in commercial and service establishments, in terms of facilities, fixed assets and stocks, according to the same document.

The decision to create a team to assess the damage caused by the extreme weather conditions, which occurred on the night of Wednesday (December 7) and in the early hours of Thursday (December 8), was announced by the Lisbon City Council, after a meeting between the Government and 11 municipalities in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon.

At the end of the meeting, the Minister of the Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, said that the Government will support the municipalities of Greater Lisbon affected by the bad, with the municipalities having to survey the damage by, at the latest, January 15.

Concerned about the lack of concrete information from the Government, the Mayor of Lisbon asked for speed in the support that will be given to municipalities in the metropolitan area affected by the bad weather, stressing that people are “desperate”.

Hours after the meeting with the Government, on Friday night, the Lisbon Chamber went ahead with the creation of a mission team, as it considered “necessary to trigger swift and agile mechanisms for accounting for losses, in the shortest possible time”.


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