After World Youth Day ended, the political country took a bath. So was the President of the Republic, on the beach of Montegordo, in the Algarve – but he still spared time for the televisions that came to him there. This Thursday it was RTP and CNNP.
Marcelo said he continues to work even on vacation, setting aside mornings and evenings to analyze the huge legislative output that comes to him these days, whether it be parliament or government.
They are in fact ‘vans’ full of laws arriving at him, as he said this Thursday, recalling what his predecessor once said about the summer legislative floods flooding the Belém Palace: “It counted to the [ex-] President Cavaco [Silva] I left with a van and brought here to the Algarve everything I needed to see. I brought a van, but vans arrive all month of August, such is life.”
One of the most relevant things to analyze is the so-called “Housing package”. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said the initiatives arrived in Belém on Wednesday and they will now be examined. and then another 12 days to enact or veto it. It will be what I will spend my mornings and nights on for the next few days, even on vacation,” he said.
Adding: “Maybe it’s the issues in the beginning that are more “divisive” and more controversial, at least one of the laws. [Uma] it is an operating law of the public administration, to make housing construction and access to housing faster and end bureaucracy, the other is the one that enforced rent and local housing. [Para] I need to take a closer look at this one,” he said.
“Now we have to roll up our sleeves and see how the response to such massive devastation is transformed.”
The president said he will be in Poland “from the 20th” and then go “almost directly” to São Tomé and Príncipe, where he will participate in the Community of Lusophone Countries (CPLP) summit, on the 27th. the analysis of this legislation: “I will not leave the decision on these matters to the last day and therefore I will have to decide earlier.”
The president of the republic also commented on the fire in Odemira, saying he was in “permanent contact” with the interior minister. “The situation regarding Odemira is now being made. I have also spoken again with the mayor of the Odemira City Council and I will speak with at least one more member of the government,” he indicated, adding that “now it is It is necessary to roll up our sleeves and see how the response to such a major devastation is grounded”.
Source: DN
