The president of the CDS-PP accused the Prime Minister and the PS on Monday of being the “face of the failure” of housing policy and announced that he had submitted a new inquiry to the European Commission under the Mais Habitação program sent.
Nuno Melo, who is also a member of the European Parliament, indicated that he has sent “a new question” to Brussels that “complements another question from a few months ago”, underlining that he wants to know whether the Prime Minister, António Costa , the European Commission about the new legislation and what ‘restrictions’ are involved.
“What I am asking the European Commission at this point, by the way, is whether Dr. António Costa has already deigned in recent months to inform Brussels about the restrictions in Portugal, which are of a nature that we have already seen, in short, maybe in Venezuela,” declared the chairman of the CDS-PP.
The centrist leader spoke to journalists during the CDS/PP Madeira’s political return, which is taking place today in Chão dos Louros Forest Park, in the Madeiran municipality of São Vicente.
Nuno Melo defended that the legislative package approved in the Assembly of the Republic and vetoed by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has an “almost totalitarian impulse”, arguing that “it starts with mandatory leases and violates the right to property. property, which is a constitutional right”.
“And I want to be very clear about this: Doctor António Costa and the Socialist Party have been the face of the failure of housing policy in Portugal for almost 16 years,” he charged.
Nuno Melo pointed out that Costa “first as mayor [de Lisboa] and now as Prime Minister, he has made multiple statements and proclamations about what he would do to solve Portugal’s housing problem, but nothing ever materialized”.
The centrist leader added that in 2016, Prime Minister António Costa promised “an investment of 1,400 million euros that would rehabilitate 7,500 homes that would serve 35,000 families” and failed to deliver.
“After all these years, since 2016, not only has he not achieved anything, but the best he can think of now is to ask Brussels to build his houses, in a paradox that also helps to understand a tic that, unfortunately, because it is perverted, shows how doctor António Costa reacts to failures,” he criticized.
From Nuno Melo’s perspective, the Prime Minister is “throwing the ideology over the problems”, giving examples in the health field with the end of public-private partnerships “in some of the best run hospitals in Portugal” and, in the field of education, with the Er a number of association contracts came to an end, giving ‘poor students opportunities’ [privados]”.
“And now, faced with the failure of the housing policy, Dr. António Costa, after making promises and failing to deliver, says what he says: come to Brussels and solve the problem for me,” reinforced the president of the CDS-PP.
Nuno Melo also assigned responsibilities to the opposition parties, classifying them as “weak”, claiming that “they are incapable of doing what the CDS has always done with notable parliamentary groups every time it has exercised mandates”.
He therefore reiterated the importance of the return of the CDS-PP to the Assembly of the Republic and expressed confidence in the next election cycles.
For his part, the president of CDS Madeira, Rui Barreto, who is also Regional Secretary of Economy in the regional government of the PSD/CDS-PP coalition, said that Madeira’s executive has invested “heavily” in housing construction. , recalling that the goal is to have 800 homes available by 2026.
“Unlike the mainland, which consists of advertisements, we already have the machines and we are already adjusting supply to demand,” he said.
Rui Barreto also emphasized that there is “normality” in Madeira, unlike what is happening in the rest of the country, given that transport and public services are working in the region and teachers are “in the classroom”.
Source: DN
