Nothing Doing

José Sá Fernandes yesterday went to the Feira das Galinheiras to meet the voters and complain how, in six years of PSD administration in Lisbon, nothing has been done in the area. The press went with him, to report on the stagnation in Lumiar - it's a shame he was actually in Ameixoeira.

In fact, the Feira has suffered from the construction of the Eixo Norte-Sul roundabout - a State highway project - and most of its patrons are probably from Loures anyway. The Lisbon side of the Feira has seen all the shanty housing demolished and the residents re-housed to a housing project that won this year's INH prize. There is renovation everywhere.

So what the hell was he talking about? Maybe it's that he, the great "embargador" has been unable to find anything to criticise in the Alta de Lisboa area during his time in office. So it's just sour grapes. More likely, it's just political opportunism of the worst kind, as we've come to expect from the man who cost the City 4 million euros just to get his name in the papers. We can but hope that he doesn't get elected, as looks likely from the latest polls...