Prime minister Luís Montenegro ‘returned to the field’ today to visit a company in Pombal – and was tackled over the continuing lack of electricity in parts of the municipality.
An exasperated local man described Pombal as the most “undervalued land that there is!” Almost a week since Storm Kristin devastated large swathes of the centre of the country, tens of thousands of homes are still without electricity, and consequently also without water. Some don’t have ‘communications’ – and the worst of it, the man told the PM, is that ‘you don’t see any workers from REN (the Chinese-owned electrical grid) anywhere’.
“We need REN to provide a service!” The clearly angry man told the prime minister – who really did not look comfortable. He quickly moved on – and spent quite a bit of the time looking at the ground, not at the people gathered around him.
According to SIC reporters at the scene, Mr Montenegro did say: “We will work on this”, before moving on again, with his head down.
Source: SIC Notícias
