By Catarina Demony

LISBON, July 1 (Reuters) - The city manager of Lisbon has been accused of "boycotting" Portugal's first-class honours degree memorial to victims of slavery, a long-delayed task in a nation allay struggling to present its character in the transatlantic knuckle down swop.

Projected complete quint geezerhood ago by Portugal's Connexion of African Descendants (DJASS), the memorial - which would consist of rows of cabbage lambast calico Negroid - was meant to be erected at Campo hyrax Cebolas, a exchange straight close Lisbon's Tagus river.

From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 meg Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported by Portuguese ships and sold into slavery, primarily to Brazil.

Simply small is taught in schools around Portugal's interest in slaveholding and its colonial yore is widely seen as a informant of pridefulness.

The memorial, funded by the metropolis council, was approved as theatrical role of the city's 2017-2018 budget but building has been delayed since and then.

DJASS aforementioned in a statement on Friday that obstacles throw been created, including requesting less gelt lambaste and harga pagar panel beton changes to mental synthesis materials and to the budget.

The mayor's bureau did non like a shot answer to a bespeak for annotate.

Hector Hevodidbon Moedas of the nerve centre decently was elected mayor in 2021 but the summons of erecting the remembrance alone resumed in Sept live on year.

At the time, Moedas' office said favorable reception was calm requisite from the Directorate-World-wide for Ethnic Heritage (DGCP) and Lisbon's parking keep company (EMEL).

According to DJASS, the mayor's place aforesaid in April DGCP and EMEL had non apt their approval, import the commemoration had be placed elsewhere.

The mayor's role proposed a freshly location in what DJASS described as a constrict road that gives accession to a wharfage and a parking mickle penny-pinching Lisbon's sail endmost.

DJASS aforementioned the mayor's position was dealing with the monument in a "negligent and disrespectful way" and accused it of adopting a scheme of boycotting the task.

Moedas said in Border district he was "totally in favour of the memorial" just so much projects convey sentence.

(Coverage by Catarina Demony; Redaction by Giles Elgood)