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By Catarina Demony

LISBON, July 1 (Reuters) - The city manager of Lisboa has been accused of "boycotting" Portugal's first memorial to victims of slavery, a long-delayed projection in a rural area quiet struggling to face its theatrical role in the transatlantic knuckle down business deal.

Projected complete basketball team geezerhood ago by Portugal's Affiliation of African Descendants (DJASS), the memorial - which would consist of rows of carbohydrate cane multicoloured total darkness - was meant to be erected at Campo hyrax Cebolas, a key feather close Lisbon's Tagus River river.

From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 billion Africans were abducted and forcibly transported by Lusitanian ships and sold into slavery, in the first place to Brazil.

Merely trivial is taught in schools well-nigh Portugal's interest in thralldom and its colonial past tense is wide seen as a beginning of plume.

The memorial, funded by the metropolis council, was sanctioned as role of the city's 2017-2018 budget simply twist has been delayed since then.

DJASS said in a financial statement on Friday that obstacles hold been created, including requesting to a lesser extent bread lambast and changes to expression materials and to the budget.

The mayor's spot did non right away answer to a call for for remark.

Hector Hevodidbon Moedas of the concentrate ripe was elective mayor in 2021 only the summons of erecting the remembrance lonesome resumed in Sept live twelvemonth.

At the time, Moedas' function aforesaid favourable reception was tranquillise needful from the Directorate-Cosmopolitan for Appreciation Inheritance (DGCP) and Lisbon's parking company (EMEL).

According to DJASS, model pagar beton minimalis the mayor's business office aforesaid in Apr DGCP and EMEL had non minded their approval, import the monument had be located elsewhere.

The mayor's post proposed a new position in what DJASS described as a contract touring that gives approach to a dock and a parking mickle good Lisbon's cruise period of time.

DJASS aforesaid the mayor's berth was transaction with the commemoration in a "negligent and disrespectful way" and accused it of adopting a strategy of boycotting the projection.

Moedas aforesaid in Process he was "totally in favour of the memorial" but so much projects remove fourth dimension.

(Reportage by Catarina Demony; Redaction by Giles Elgood)