PSD leader Luís Montenegro believed on Wednesday that the government does not need to change the housing law to implement the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), “it has to work” and stop entertaining the country.
In Sendim, Miranda do Douro, district of Bragança, Luís Montenegro reacted to statements by the PS parliamentary leader, Eurico Brilhante Dias, that the socialist bank will confirm the diploma on housing vetoed on Monday by the president of the republic pronounced, before “the urgency of responding to the housing crisis”.
“Of course I know there is urgency. Of course I know that there are EUR 2,700 million to be implemented in the PRR. But that is not dependent on this legislation. The government does not need to change any law to implement the PRR. What you need is to work, perform, go to the field. Instead of delaying and impaling the country, you have to work’Montenegro told reporters.
According to Luís Montenegro, it is “a long-term strategy” and it is necessary “to be sure that it will deliver results, or at least a deep conviction”.
“Do you know what the country thinks about the Socialist Party’s strategy? That the result (of the new housing law) will be zero, or less. Below zero. That is to say that the market, with interventions such as forced rent, such as The hostile attack on local housing, will lead to fewer investors, less confidence in promoters and less supply of housing. And fewer homes mean higher prices. And more prices mean less access,” he said.
Luís Montenegro said it was still not worth “come with the demagogues that there is a neoliberal and market defense perspective. (…)”.
“Stop this nonsense. Stop these things, these neoliberal market bogeymen. The greatest friends of private business in Portugal are the socialists. This is what is true. We defend the complementarity of public and private to think about people. And what they do in the house, what they do, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s a crime. Because it won’t have any effect”he said in statements to the press.
The PSD president also said he believes “the Portuguese have more and more elements to see that this period of two full eight-year PS legislatures is a ‘flop’, it’s a delay in life”.
On the third and final day of the ‘Sentir Portugal’ initiative in the district of Bragança, the Social Democrat also said that the government is ‘concreting’.
Using the football analogy, Montenegro stated that this government “always misses the line”.
“Often he scores a goal in his own goal. He never scores a goal. The PRR is the lifeline for the investments that the state has not made,” he underlined.
The PSD leader also believed that the state does not guarantee territorial cohesion and that “positive-aggressive discrimination” is needed for low-density areas.
“The tax part, from our point of view, is the most important factor for the attractiveness of these areas,” he told journalists at Cooperativa Agrícola Ribadouro.
Source: DN
