PS proposes toll exemption on A6 for Moura and Barrancos

O PS intends that the State Budget for 2027 (OE2027) contemplate the toll exemption in A6 for the municipalities of Moura and Barrancos, in the district of Beja, maintaining the existing in A2.

This measure is contained in a proposal to amend the OE2027 signed by seven Socialist Members, dated 6 this month and released today.

In a statement, the PS explained that, in the legislation in force, taking into account the application of the criteria based on NUTS III (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes), the municipalities of Moura and Barrancos are included in the area of influence” of the South Highway (A2).

And so it can be read, do not benefit from “the exemption in the section of A6”, between the node A2/A6/A13 and Caia, in the municipality of Elvas, district of Portalegre, passing through the district of Évora, although this is “the most important structuring link for the mobility of its populations and economic agents”.

According to the socialists, in the concrete case of these municipalities, there is “a gap between the formal delimitation and the functional reality of mobility that the norm itself intends to capture by using the notion of area of influence” that harms “the populations and economic agents of these municipalities”.

Cited in the statement, the deputy of the PS elected by the circle of Beja, Pedro do Carmo, argued that “the exemption from tolls should take into account the reality of the population and not be limited to an administrative interpretation that ultimately excludes who should benefit from the measure”.

Thus, the PS continued, the proposal assumes a “strictly corrective nature”, limiting itself “to introducing an identifiable and justified municipal exception that restores the correspondence between the purpose of the measure and territorial reality”.

The exemption from the payment of tolls on the A6 motorway and on the sections of the A2 that serve Alentejo for residents and companies based in the region was approved, in November 2025, in the context of the vote in the specialty of the OE2026, by proposal of the PS.

The exemption scheme covers the section of A6 between No. A2/A6/A13 and Caia, while for A2, the section of No. A2/A6/A13 to No. Almodovar is included in the district of Beja.

The exemption operates “through the use of electronic device associated with vehicle registration”.

To know who can benefit from the exemption, the legislation provides that the areas of influence comprise, in the case of A6, “the territory covered by the NUTS III of the Alto Alentejo and Alentejo Central”, i.e., districts of Portalegre and Évora, and, in the case of A2, “the territory covered by the NUTS III of the Baixo Alentejo and Alentejo Litoral”, that is, district of Beja and municipalities of the Alentejo coast that belong to the district of Setúbal.