The Azores Government will make statutory visits to the islands of Flores and Corvo on Tuesday and Wednesday, with a program that includes meetings with mayors and island council presidents. According to the visit’s agenda, to which the Lusa news agency had access, on Tuesday, the executive (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) will make its statutory visit to Flores, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. local time (one hour later in Lisbon) with a meeting with the mayor of Lajes das Flores, Beto Vasconcelos, at the Town Hall.

At 11:30 a.m., there will be another meeting with the mayor of Santa Cruz das Flores, Elisabete Nóia, at the Startup Flores building – Business Incubator of the Island of Flores. After lunch, the Government Council will meet, followed at 3:00 p.m. by a meeting of the Azorean executive with the Board of the Island Council of Flores.

On Tuesday afternoon, the archipelago’s leaders will travel to the island of Corvo, where at 6:15 p.m. they will meet with the island’s mayor, Marco Silva, at the Town Hall. On Wednesday, the last day of the statutory visit to the smallest island in the archipelago, there will be a meeting with the Corvo Island Council (9:00 a.m.) and a meeting of the Government Council (11:00 a.m.). The statutory visit to the two islands of the Western group will end at 12:15 p.m. with the reading of the conclusions of the two Government Councils at the Corvo Wild Bird Interpretation Center building.

According to the Statute of the Azores, the Regional Government must visit each island in the archipelago at least once a year, with the obligation to convene the Government Council on the island visited. This time, as the Island Councils are in a transition phase due to the local elections in October, the Azorean executive will only hold meetings with the respective boards.

The Island Council is an advisory body to the Regional Government of the Azores composed of the mayors and municipal assemblies of the island, four elected members from each municipal assembly, three parish council presidents, a representative of the Regional Government (without voting rights), and several members of the island’s social, environmental, cultural, and business organizations.

In Açores9 – Paulo Melo, Director

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