Electoral manifesto 2025 – Lakes with Future

Municipal elections 2025

Municipality of Lagos

Electoral manifesto

Lagos communities: Social and economic cohesion, Sustainability and Quality of Life.

An advanced city, with a long history in a change world on the way from the mid -century. XXI

Five pillars and an extended impact project

Declaration of liability

The coalition Lakes with Future, It is a movement of independent citizens who live and aim for the improvement of all in the municipality of Lagos, as well as the development of the city and all parishes of the county.

Our proposals, poured in this manifesto and other documents that we will share with the population of the municipality of Lagos, They were developed with responsibility and good faith, taking into account information on the public and the development vision that members of the list believe and consider it feasible.

All projects presented were the target of a specific reflection, within the team and consulting several experts.

The execution of the proposed measures, presupposes that the information made available on the financial situation of the municipality is rigorous and that budgets in the next 4 years will have levels of revenue and financing at the same levels as the average of recent years, as well as respect for the rules of financial balance.

Simultaneously, We have to share with the Lacobrigesis the reserve of conscience that the part quality of the management information disclosed and the volume of changes that the budgets and multi -annual plans have suffered in recent years in our planning work in recent years have imposed us.

Like this, we assume that the levels of municipal tax collection will be stable and that the municipality's structure costs will not have significant changes, resulting from assumed commitments that we are unaware and / or are not public, to be able to execute this electoral manifesto.

#1. Housing - a plan on several fronts for the citizens of lakes.

Lagos Housing: Clear and realistic proposals

The housing situation in Lagos has been marked by confusion, delays and mismanagement. Many projects announced never left the paper, Planning has failed and the municipality accumulates indebtedness.

A Lakes with Future analyzed the situation in depth and concluded that:

O PRR will be fully extinguished in less than a year, And in many areas it is no longer possible to present new projects.

Important opportunities were lost.

Lakes suffers from neglect, But you have to react with realism and strategic vision.

Our proposals:

Ongoing processes:

Lakes with future analyzed the situation with depth: With realism the PRR will be completely extinct in less than a year and in many areas it is already impossible to present projects. Opportunities and Lakes were lost, suffering from neglect, You have to react. We propose the following:

-Finish the construction of 104 Fireworks in Chesgal;

Review early processes

Analyze with realism each project;

Search for various financial solutions;

Establish negotiations with public and private partners;

Viable plans, controlled;

New housing projects

Advance with projects in new housing centers;

Reject the construction of 14 Fires in the Bensafrim Parking Park, essential to the market, to the pharmacy and the health center.

Municipal subdivisions for self -construction

Create new urban projects in Luz, Baron. João and Bensafrim, lots for sale, for self -construction.

To develop type models type adapted to each parish, which are included in the price of lots, to ensure a uniformity of construction.

Enjoy the new soil law

Extend urban perimeters and integrate rustic land and acquire the same, for or municipality.

Invite building companies economic, ecological and modular, paraEnsworking projects that allow lower housing prices to lakes to values accessible to lake workers' scholarships.

Ensure with partner companies, fires, that will serve to lease, under the management of the City Council.

Rehabilitation of old housing

Create incentives for the recovery of degraded houses.

Improve the comfort and thermal efficiency of housing.

Support for families and young people

Housing support projects for families and young people with employment.

Incentive to cooperatives

Support the dynamization of housing cooperatives.

Housing is a fundamental right. In lakes with future we believe it is possible bring real solutions, balanced and fair, that respond to the needs of the population.

#2. Health, SAFETY AND CIVIL PROTECTION – A plan that bets on the health and safety of citizens of the municipality of Lagos.

Reinforce proximity policing;
Approach primary health care to the parishes of Luz, Pardon, Odiáxre and Barão de S. João, with the hiring of a doctor(s) family through the City Council, elaborating for this purpose a municipal regulation;
Install video surveillance with monitoring in the tourist zones;
Promote animal protection and welfare;

#3. Environmental and urban sustainability - lakes towards integrated sustainability

Replace and expand the infrastructures buried in water and sewage;
Conduct an economic study to confirm what we think, that it is possible to internalize the wave service, performing significant savings, that will allow to make the service free for residents in the county, As soon as this contract is concluded;
Improve urban and disturbance mobility, with optimization of wave circuits;
Rehabilitate, squares, Urban streams, Municipalities and Roads;
Recover the blue flags of the beaches;
Improve urban cleaning with frequent streets washes and weed removal;
Optimize the collection of urban solid waste and install new ecological islands;
Define and implement an adaptation plan for climate change;
Apply a local action plan for biodiversity with the participation of citizens and the associative movement.
Implement the Green Green Project – Urban Park/Lakes Garden.

#4. Economic and social development - economically sustainable lakes – A vision and actions with a 360º spectrum

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Create a University hub dedicated to the fine arts and design, performative arts (theater, cinema, music, dance) and tourism;
Support the installation of Restoration Professional School, Hospitality and Lagos Tourism.
Strengthen the Secure School Project, providing vehicles and increasing the presence of security forces, so that students, teachers, parents and employees feel truly protected.
Ensure that lake schools have operational assistants and technical assistants provided for by law, ensuring daily daily operation.
Construction of a new school and/b 2,3 - Need already identified and approved in the educational letter in 2018. This new infrastructure will allow you to release the secondary schools Gil Eanes and Júlio Dantas from the 9th grade classes.
Population growth and increase in migratory flow in recent years have brought more students at school age, making this work even more urgent.
Reinforce school health teams, ensuring the presence of speech psychologists and therapists in all schools in the municipality.

Entrepreneurship and Economy

Activate Entrepreneur Factory;
Create a Company nest (business incubator) To support those who want to undertake;
Realize Strategic Studies to identify the competitive advantages of lakes and their potential “clusters” (Specialization areas), making this information available to investors;
Create the Municipal Council of Economics and Tourism, involving investors, citizens, public institutions and private associations;
Develop a Retail Outlet of Sustainable Commerce, focusing on good environmental practices.

Tourism and Culture

Promote New events to combat seasonality, as gastronomic fairs, large cultural activities and handicrafts;
Review the Social plan and the cultural plan of Lagos, Building a more transparent and participatory strategy.

Civic participation

Relaunch the Participatory budget, with specific divisions for young people, seniors and civil society;
Create the figure of MUNICIPAL PROVIDER, to defend the interests of citizens with the municipality;
Actively involve foreign citizens living in lakes, valuing the social and cultural diversity of the community.

Social support

Widen the work of Social network, reinforcing support for elderly and encouraging an active and civic senior life;
But diversified support to vulnerable groups: children and the elderly, people with disabilities, women, ethnic minorities, unemployed and families with low income or without dignified housing.

Modernization of Administration

Implement the remote work for municipal employees, whenever possible, for greater efficiency and better conciliation of professional and personal life.

#5. Cultural Heritage and Sport - History and Artistic Languages as means of inclusion and development

Requalify and promote the built heritage;
Value and promote the intangible cultural heritage of the county;
Invitation to the development of permanent interactive space on lakes, its nature, your past and your people. Lakes and the natural disasters they marked - the case of earthquake 1755;
Creation of the Municipal Council of Culture with the active cultural agents of the county;
Decentralization of the spaces of cultural enjoyment and entertainment;
Define an annual support program for the associative movement, sports and cultural, with objective rules;
Support sports and athletes of high potential, including adapted sports;
Value and support local artisans through the creation of a strong brand/ seal that identifies them as, Lagos Municipality Artisans.

Lakes with Future - Requalification and Sustainability for a city for the mid -21st century

The transformative project that is imposed

Review the infrastructures and the city's design. You can not postpone more:

Historic center

Storage of buried infrastructures;
Water and Sewage Networks, in the following streets: STREET LASTAOTE DE FREITAS, Rua Soeiro da Costa, Rua dos Ferreiros, DR Street. Faria e Silva and other streets of the Historic Center of Lagos (intramural);
Water and Sewage Networks, in other streets in the city: Santo Amaro Street, Cemetery Street, Rua Crisógno dos Santos and Rua da Aldeia, Marítimo/ Ameijeira Commitment Street;
Low and telecommunications electricity network.

Water supply from the county

Improvement of flow and pressure conditions (Sargaçal).
Remodeling/ Expansion of Conducts for Water Supply (Gateways, Blessing Gardens, College, Jewish, Pilgrims, Vale da Rosa and Pedragosa);
Replacement of the Vila de Odiáxre Water Supply Network.

Domestic Water

Deactivation of septic tanks (Vale from Lama, Baron. João, Pound, Wide);
Expansion of the Sewage Collector Network in Chinicato/ Torre;
Pool efforts with a view to remodeling from the Barão de S WWTP. João;
Disable collective pits in urbanizations with links to public drainage networks (Caliças and Santa Teresinha/ Sargaçal).

Water reservoirs

Requalification of low water reservoirs (funchal, Pound);
Construction of new reservoirs (Bensafrim and Green Colinas).

Urban cleaning

Expand network of ecological islands, with sensorization of use of useful capacity (telegegent);
Increased frequency of waste collection and regular cleaning;
LAVING AND REGULAR CONTENTORY HYGIENIZATION;
Intelligent management technologies in the area of public hygiene;
Citizens involvement in the collection of suggestion and active participation in everyday processes for a sustainable environment.

Urban Cycle Lights

Construction of urban bike lanes, in the connection between the 2nd and 3rd cycles schools, Municipal Pavilion and Stadium.

Cemeteries

Expansion of the Municipal Cemetery (novo);
Animal cemetery rehabilitation;
Construction of Columbários in the Municipal Cemetery (novo);
Improve accessibility to the Barão de S cemetery. João.

Avenida dos Discoveries

Develop execution project for avenue requalification, (including Infante Square, Largo da Ribeira das Naus and Largo of the Bus Terminal);
Construction of a playground in noble zone with a view to the revitalization of local commerce.

Green ring

Project elaboration and execution of the 3rd phase of the Green Ring Park.

Create conditions for the University Pole of Lagos

Project with a view to the rehabilitation of the Mrs.. of glory;
Challenge to University Institutes (Higher School of Arts and Lagos Tourism);
Study with secondary schools conditions for vocational education in the area of restoration and hospitality;
Establish protocols for studies directed to the strategic development of lakes and the county, valorization of the built and immaterial historical heritage (academic theses and connection between universities, public authorities and entrepreneurs).

Municipal Road Requalification, of streets in the parishes and creation of strategic parking parks, such as:

Benefit of Rua da Várzea and Rua right in Luz;
Requalification of Parking Park in Luz;
Rehabilification of Parking Park in Bensafrim;
Rehabilification of streets of the village of Odiáxre;
Benefit of the Municipal Road between Montinhos da Luz and Burgau;
Requalification of various streets and rural paths in the parishes.

Municipal equipment

New Building for the Bensafrim Parish Council;
End of the new headquarters and equipment of the São Gonçalo Board;
Business area for small industry in Barão de S. João;
Rehabilification of the space of lakes fairs;
Rehabilification of the space of fairs and leisure of Barão de S. João;
Judice Cabral Park Rehabilification;
Construction of Green Leisure Park in Lagos;
Playground Construction in Praia da Luz;
Installation of museum and ethnographic core in the parishes of Odiáxre and Barão de S. João;
Construction of a multipurpose pavilion in Odiáxre.

Development of the Detail Plan for the Tecnópolis Zone

Project for the New Bus Terminal.

Chamber resources

Mobilize, To value, Meritocracy, Responsibility

Lakes with Future, It has the professionalism and dedication of local officials in the realization of the measures that the county needs - reason for the existence of the municipal function.

The staff of the City Council, The qualifications of its members and dedication are fundamental weapons for the change and the future of lakes. Lines of the Development of Human Resources of the Municipality:

Empower heads to various levels: qualifications, Definition of missions and development of autonomy;
Identification of employees with high potential - prepare the rejuvenation and future of the municipality;
Employees with specific functions - Qualification for essential services such as maintenance, urban cleaning, security, carpentry, sawmill, service to citizens, Building and Equipment Management, between others;
Possibility of exercise of public functions in Continuous journey for employees with pressing needs in the face of difficulties in the lack of support equipment and family support, provided that they comply with the requirements under the general law of labor in public functions (LTFP).

Public resources are always limited, The City Council has a huge commitment to multi -annual projects with delays and postponements and a reduced execution.

Municipal elections 2025

Lagos Municipal Council

Electoral manifest

Lagos Communities: Social and Economic Cohesion, Sustainability, and Quality of Life.

An advanced city with a long history, navigating a changing world on the path to the mid-21st century.

Five Pillars and a Broad-Impact Project

Declaration of Commitment

The coalition Lakes with Future is a movement of independent citizens dedicated to the improvement of all residents and the development of the city and every civil parish (parishes).

Our proposals, presented in this manifesto and other documents to be shared with the residents of the Lagos municipality, were developed responsibly and in good faith. They are based on publicly available information and reflect a feasible vision of development that the members of our list believe in.

All projects were the subject of in-depth reflection within our team and included consultation with various experts.

The execution of the proposed measures presupposes that the information made available regarding the Municipality’s financial situation is accurate, and that the budgets over the next four years will maintain revenue and financing levels consistent with the average of recent years, as well as adherence to financial balance rules.

Simultaneously, we must share with the Lacobrigenses (residents of Lagos) our deep concern regarding the poor quality of the management information disclosed and the volume of changes that the Municipal Council’s budgets and multi-annual plans have undergone in recent years, which have imposed serious constraints on our planning efforts.

Thus, to execute this electoral manifesto, we assume that municipal tax collection levels will remain stable and that the municipality’s structural costs will not change significantly due to unknown or undisclosed prior commitments.

#1. Housing – A Multi-Front Plan for the Citizens of Lagos

Lagos Housing: Clear and Realistic Proposals

The housing situation in Lagos has been marked by confusion, delays, and mismanagement. Many announced projects never materialized, planning has failed, and the municipality has accumulated debt.

Lakes with Future has analysed the situation in depth and concludes that:

The Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) funding will be fully exhausted in less than a year, and in many areas, it is already impossible to submit new projects.
Important opportunities were lost. Lagos is suffering from neglect and must react with realism and strategic vision.

Our Proposals:

Ongoing Processes:

Complete the construction of 104 Housing Units in Chesgal.

Review early processes:

Analyse each project with realism;
Search for diverse financial solutions;
Establish negotiations with public and private partners;
Implement viable and risk-controlled plans.

New Housing Projects:

Advance with projects in new housing centres.
Reject the construction of 14 Housing Units in the Bensafrim Parking area, which is essential for the market, pharmacy and health centre.

Municipal Allotments for Self-Construction:

Create new urban projects in Luz, Barão de São João and Bensafrim, offering lots for sale dedicated to self-construction.
Develop standard housing models adapted to each civil parish, included in the lot price, to ensure construction uniformity.

Leverage the new Land Law:

Extend urban perimeters, integrating and acquiring rural land for the municipality.
Invite economic, ecological and modular construction companies to develop projects that will bring Lagos housing prices down to levels accessible for local workers.
Ensure that partner companies provide housing units that will be allocated for rental under the management of the City Council.

Rehabilitation of Old Housing:

Create incentives for the recovery of degraded houses.
Improve the comfort and thermal efficiency of existing housing.

Support for Families and Young People:

Implement housing support projects for families and young people with employment.

Support for housing cooperatives:

Support for the dynamization of housing cooperatives;

Housing is a fundamental right. Lakes with Future believes it is possible to deliver real, balanced, and fair solutions that meet the needs of the population.

#2. Health, Safety and Civil Protection – A plan that invests in the health and safety of Lagos citizens.

Reinforce proximity policing.
Bring primary healthcare closer to the civil parishes of Luz, ODIAXER, and Barão de São João by hiring family doctor(s) directly through the City Council, establishing a municipal regulation for this purpose.
Install monitored videosurveillance systems in tourist areas;
Promote animal protection and welfare.

#3. Environmental and Urban Sustainability – Lagos Towards Integrated Sustainability

Replace and expand the underground water and sewage infrastructure;
Conduct an economic study to confirm our belief that it is possible to internalize the Onda (Bus) service, achieving significant savings that will allow the service to be free for residents in the Municipality, as soon as the current contract concludes;
Improve urban and inter-parish mobility by optimizing Onda (bus) routes/circuits.
Rehabilitate squares, urban streets, municipal roads and paths.
Recover the Blue Flags status for the beaches.
Improve urban cleaning with frequent street washing and weed removal.
Optimize the collection of urban solid waste and install new ecological islands.
Define and implement an adaptation plan for climate change.
Apply a local action plan for biodiversity with the participation of citizens and the associative movement.
Implement the Green Ring Project – Urban Park/Lagos Garden.

#4. Economic and Social Development – Economically Sustainable Lagos. A vision and actions with a 360-degree scope

Education and Training:

Create a University Hub dedicated to Fine Arts, Design, Performing Arts (theatre, cinema, music, dance) and Tourism.
Support the establishment of a Professional School focused on Restaurant Management, Hospitality and Tourism in Lagos.
Strengthen the Safe School Project, providing vehicles and increasing the presence of security forces to ensure that students, teachers, parents and employees feel truly protected.
Ensure that Lagos schools have the legally required operational and technical assistants, guaranteeing smooth daily operation.
Construct a new Basic School (2nd and 3rd cycles) – a need identified and approved in the Educational Charter in 2018. This new facility will relieve pressure on Gil Eanes and Júlio Dantas secondary schools by taking over 9th-grade classes, which is urgent given recent population growth and migratory flow.
Reinforce school health teams, ensuring the presence of psychologists and speech therapists in all schools in the municipality.

Entrepreneurship and Economy:

Activate the Entrepreneurship Factory;
Create a Company Nest (Business Incubator) to support new entrepreneurs;
Conduct Strategic Studies to identify Lagos’ competitive advantages and potential “clusters“ (specialization areas), making this information accessible to investors;
Establish the Municipal Council for Economy and Tourism, involving investors, citizens, public institutions and private associations;
Develop a Sustainable Commerce Retail Network, focusing on sound environmental practices;

Tourism and Culture:

Promote new events to combat seasonality, such as gastronomic fairs, major cultural activities and handicraft markets;
Review the Social Plan and the Cultural Plan of Lagos, building a more transparent and participatory strategy;

Civic Participation:

Relaunch the Participatory Budget, with specific quotas for youth, seniors and civil society;
Create the figure of the Municipal Ombudsman (or Citizen’s Advocate) to defend citizens’ interests before the municipality;
Actively involve foreign citizens living in Lagos, valuing the social and cultural diversity of the community;

Social Support:

Expand the work of the Social Network, reinforcing support for the elderly and encouraging an active and civic senior life;
Provide more diversified support for vulnerable groups: children and the elderly, people with disabilities, women, ethnic minorities, unemployed, and low-income families or those lacking dignified housing;

Modernization of Administration:

Implement remote work for municipal employees, whenever possible, to improve efficiency and better reconcile professional and personal life.

#5. Cultural Heritage and Sport – History and Artistic Languages as Means of Inclusion and Development

Requalify and promote the built heritage;
Value and promote the intangible cultural heritage of the county;
Call for the development of a permanent interactive space focused on Lagos, its nature, its past and its people, including the natural disasters that marked its history, such as the 1755 earthquake;
Create the Municipal Council of Culture involving the active cultural agents of the municipality;
Decentralize cultural enjoyment and entertainment spaces;
Define an annual support program for the associative, sports, and cultural movements, based on objective rules;
Support sports modalities and high-potential athletes, including adaptive sports;
Value and support local artisans by creating a strong brand/seal that identifies them as Lagos Municipal Artisans;

Lakes with Future – REQUALIFICATION AND SUSTAINABILITY FOR A CITY FOR THE MID-21ST CENTURY

The transformative project that must be undertaken:

Review of Infrastructures and Urban Design (It cannot be delayed any further)

Historic Centre:

Underground infrastructure renewal.
Water and Sewage Networks in the following streets: STREET LASTAOTE DE FREITAS, Rua Soeiro da Costa, Rua dos Ferreiros, DR Street. FARIA E SILVA, and other streets in the Historic Centre (intramural).
Water and Sewage Networks in other city streets: Rua Santo Amaro, Cemetery Street, Rua Crisógno dos Santos, Rua da Aldeia, and Rua do Marítimo/ Ameijeira;
Low voltage electricity and telecommunications networks.

Water Supply throughout the Municipality:

Improvement of flow and pressure conditions (Sargaçal).
Remodelling/Expansion of Water Supply Conduits (Gateways, Blessing Gardens, College, Jewish, Romerias, Vale da Rosa and Pedragosa).
Replacement of the OdiáxereWater Supply Network.

Domestic Water Sewage:

Deactivation of septic tanks (Vale from Lama, Baron of São João, Pound, Wide).
Expansion of the Sewage Collector Network in Chinicato/Torre.
Focus Efforts on the renewal of Barão de São João Etar (Wastewater Treatment Plant).
Deactivate collective septic tanks in urbanizations already linked to public drainage networks (Caliças and Santa Teresinha/Sargaçal).

Water Reservoirs:

Requalification of low-level water reservoirs (Funchal and Caliças).
Construction of new reservoirs (Bensafrim and Green Colinas).

Urban Cleaning:

Expand the network of ecological islands, with sensors for measuring usable capacity (telemanagement)
Increased frequency of waste collection and regular cleaning.
Washing and regular container sanitization.
Implement intelligent management technologies in the area of public hygiene.
Involve citizens in collecting suggestions and participating actively in everyday processes for a sustainable environment.

Urban Cycle Paths:

Construction of urban bike paths connecting the 2nd and 3rd cycle schools, the Municipal Pavilion and the Stadium.

Cemeteries:

Expansion of the Municipal Cemetery (new section).
Pet Cemetery rehabilitation.
Construction of Columbaries in the Municipal Cemetery (new section).
Improve Accessibility to the Baron of St. John Cemetery.

Avenida dos Discoveries:

Develop the execution project for the Avenue requalification (Including Infante Square, Largo da Ribeira das naus and the bus terminal square).
Construction of a playground in a prime area with a view to revitalizing local commerce.

Green Ring:

Project elaboration and execution of the 3rd phase of the Green Ring Park.

University Pole of Lagos:

Project Aimed at the Rehabilitation of Lady of Glory Building.
Challenge University Institutes (E.G., Higher School of Arts and Lagos Tourism).
Study conditions with secondary schools for professional education in the area of restaurant management and hospitality.
Establish protocols for studies directed to the strategic development of Lagos and the Council, and the valorisation of the built and intangible historical heritage (academic theses and connection between universities, public authorities, and entrepreneurs).

Municipal Road Requalification, Street Improvements and Strategic Parking facilities, such as:

Improvement of Rua da Várzea and Rua right in Luz.
Requalification of the Parking facility in Luz.
Rehabilitation of the Parking facility in Bensafrim.
Rehabilitation of streets in Odiáxere.
Improvement of the Municipal Road Beteen Montinhos da Luz and Burgau.
Requalification of various streets and rural paths in the civil parishes.

Municipal Equipment:

New Building for the Bensafrim Parish Council.
Completion of the new headquarters and equipment for the São Gonçalo Civil Parish Council.
Business Area For Small Industry in Barão de São João.
Rehabilitation of the Lagos Fairgrounds.
Rehabilitation of the fair and leisure space in baron of São João.
Rehabilitation of the judice cabral park.
Construction of a Green Leisure Park in Lagos.
Construction of a Playground in Praia da Luz.
Installation of A Museum and Ethnographic Core in the Civil Parishes of Odiáxre and Baron of São João.
Construction of a multipurpose pavilion in Odiáxere.

Development of the Detailed Plan for the Tecnópolis Zone.

Project for the New Bus Terminal.

Municipal Human Resources:

Mobilization, Valuation, Meritocracy, Responsibility

Lagos com Futuro counts on the professionalism and dedication of the municipal staff to realize the necessary measures for the County, which is the core reason for the existence of the local public function.

The staff of the City Council, the qualifications of its members and the dedication are fundamental weapons for change and the Future of Lagos.

Lines of Development of Human Resources for the Municipality:

Empower leadership at various levels: qualifications, definition of missions and development of autonomy.
Identification of high-potential employees to prepare the rejuvenation and future of the municipality.
Qualification for employees with specific functions in essential services such as maintenance, urban cleaning, security, carpentry, joinery, citizen services, and building and equipment management, among others.
Possibility of implementing Continuous Working Hours for employees with pressing family needs, provided they meet the requirements under the General Law on Labour in Public Functions (LTFP).

Public resources are always limited. The City Council currently has a massive commitment to multi-annual projects marked by delays, postponements, and low execution rates.