At the proposal of the PAN Party, Lisbon city council will hold a thematic debate on immigration, with three sessions, the first scheduled for September 12 to be on ‘institutional responses to managing migration’.
‘Immigration in Lisbon: what future?’ is the question that prompts this debate, with the first two sessions open to guest speakers, organisations and the general public, and the third and final included in a meeting of the council to discuss and assess the report and any recommendations, as well as motions addressed to the government.
“It is important to debate this issue, to understand how the local authority can play a role here, to contribute to solving a problem that is evident in the city”, PAN’s municipal councillor António Morgado Valente told Lusa, considering the increase in immigrant homelessness in Lisbon to be “very serious”.
