"At a time when, in Portugal, there are people living in undignified conditions, all authorities are called upon to collaborate and, on the part of the Government, there will also be a contribution to this", said António Leitão Amaro, speaking to journalists in parliament, on the sidelines of several meetings with parliamentary groups on migration policies. "It is known that the mayor of Lisbon met yesterday with the Prime Minister, and will also meet with me this week, but the contacts are regular so that, together, we can find solutions" to the problem. "Obviously, the local authorities, with the proximity they have and with the delegated powers" have a fundamental role in the local management of problems, but "the Government is a partner and together we will solve a problem that has several dimensions", said the minister. This week, the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, requested hearings to solve the problem of homeless people in the city, which has been increasing since the covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the mayor expressed concern about the situation near the Anjos church -- with several immigrant tents concentrated --, a problem that cannot be solved by the local authority alone, given that many of the people who spend the night there "do not even have documentation". According to Carlos Moedas, "there is a national problem", hence his request to the Government and the President of the Republic: "We all have to work together to solve the problem", he stressed. Like the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, the mayor of the capital believes that the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) "is not working". The organisation "has to act, it has to be available, because people cannot wait years to be received", said Carlos Moedas on Monday. "This Government is aware that there is a difficult situation in terms of migration today" and "we will do in 60 days what the previous Government not only did not do, but even undid, in 3050 days", Leitão Amaro explained today. Recently, the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, José Cesário, said that candidates for the new visa for citizens of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) will have a "more demanding" procedure, something that has already been criticised by the opposition. On this matter, the minister responsible for migration policy said that the CPLP agreement is not in question, but it is necessary to comply with one of the requirements of this international commitment, which is the "demonstration of sufficient resources or subsistence conditions" of those who arrive. "All the parliamentary groups here have conveyed that there is, in fact, in relation to the CPLP and its peoples and the migrants who come from there, a set of affinities" that facilitate their integration, stressed Leitão Amaro. The CPLP mobility agreement (which brings together Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste) provides for a series of simplifications in the visa process, a long-standing demand of the organisation. Read Also: Government to review institutional model for managing the entry of immigrants (Portuguese version)