The municipality of Campo Alegre de Lourdes claims that the municipality is in order with its accounts and that the event will bring profit to the local economy
The Town Hall of Campo Alegre de Lourdes, in the hinterland of Bahia, city located 820 km from Salvador, on the border with Piauí, booked the singer’s show Gustavo Lima for R$1.3 million for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, patron saint of the city, which will take place on February 9th.
The event generated controversy on social media as September 2023 the city declared an emergency due to the drought. Almost 2 months after the decree, the contract with the compatriot was signed on October 31st, announced the Folha de S.Paulo.
OR emergency decree lasts 180 days. In it, the municipality declared that the drought had caused serious damage to the municipality’s productive activities, such as agriculture and livestock, in addition to environmental damage and the health of the population.
The Municipality justified the expense for the show based on the economic return that the event will bring to the city of 30 thousand inhabitants. “The festival attracts people from 20 nearby towns, attracts 30 to 40 thousand people. All this generates wealth for the municipality, displaces restaurants and attracts street vendors,” said the Mayor Enilson Marcelo (PC do B) to the newspaper.
Marcelo also reiterated that the municipality is up to date with its accounts, does not delay employees’ salaries and has the program Management 10, which delivers a project every 10 days, with 90% of the municipality’s own investment resources. Furthermore, the expectation is that the party will encourage the circulation of R$10 million in the local economy, without imposing any kind of burden on other essential health and educational activities, for example.
The mayor of Campo Alegre of Lourdes It also says the emergency decree remains in effect, even though rainfall conditions have already improved significantly earlier in the year. “We are evaluating to make the best decision [sobre manter a emergência]”, he concluded.
*With information provided by Folha de S.Paulo and the Union of Municipalities of Bahia.
Source: Terra
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