PAN today asked the government to “immediately implement” a national plan to free pets from chains following the death and injury of several dogs in the Serra da Estrela fire.
“After another year in which fires once again claimed the lives of animals bound in chains, without any possibility of escape and [em locais] who were not evacuated, People-Animals-Nature (PAN) is demanding that the government urgently implement the national plan for the release of pets, which was included in the state budget for 2022, as proposed by PAN, and adjust the conditions for the animals. housing,” the party calls.
In a note sent to the media, the political force led by Ines Souza Real indicates that the state budget for this year provides for an amount of “500 thousand euros” for the preparation and implementation of a national plan to de-chain pets.
“It is absolutely incomprehensible that the government has not yet moved forward with the implementation of the national plan for the release of companion animals,” which “aims to support people in transforming the places where animals are located so that they can be freed from chains.” “protects.
PAN also added that “it will once again take the matter to the Assembly of the Republic” and introduce a new initiative “to settle the permanent pegging with a view to its termination and the placement of pets in Portugal, thus resuming the terms of the bill presented in June 2021 and generally approved , but which, as a result of the early closure of the Legislative Assembly, did not become the subject of a final vote.
“Despite the tragic deaths recorded in Santo Tirso two years ago and in Santa Rita last year, dozens of chained companion animals continue to die, becoming victims of wildfires that have engulfed the entire country, as happened during the fires in Palmela, and now in the Serra-da. Estrela”, condemns the party.
A PAN spokesman quoted in the statement stressed that “it is unacceptable that animals continue to die so brutally in fires every year” because “they are constantly chained or in other forms of restraint, without any form of rescue.” cruel and painful death.
Inés Souza Real also insists on “the importance of the initiative presented by the government to create a National Animal Rescue Plan, which will be included in the National Emergency Plan for Civil Protection with application and implementation at the municipal level.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
