The president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, announced this Friday that the party will present a housing package on the 14th, two days before a cabinet meeting devoted exclusively to this sector.
“I want the Council of Ministers to fulfill its task, which is to present its ideas, but we at the PSD will not wait, not even before the 16th, on the 14th we will present a very concrete package of measures”said Luis Montenegro.
The PSD leader said he hoped that around the objectives the party will defend “the necessary consensus can be generated so that these investments are no longer delayed”.
“I deeply regret that we have come to this day and that the funding opportunities have been opened up by the PRR [Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência]also in housing, are so late, so delayed, as unfortunately the hallmark of today,” he said.
On the sidelines of the visit to the 44th Serra da Estrela Cheese Fair, in Celorico da Beira, Guarda, the PSD leader also wished the government to “move from words to deeds” regarding measures for the housing sector.
“We have spent years presenting ideas, targets and even a national housing strategy, but things are not getting off the ground,” accused.
Luís Montenegro pointed this out “there is a lack of supply in the housing market, whether to buy or to rent, prices are unaffordable everywhere in the country, not just in the more urban areas and more on the coast”.
The Social Democratic leader, who spent a week in the Guarda district, in the “Sentir Portugal” initiative, said he was “faced many times by people complaining about the cost of housing”.
“This strategy is also fundamental for our future. It is not possible to keep our talents, our young people, in Portugal, it is not possible to have policies to welcome immigrants and foreign workers as we need today if we do not have decent have housing.” to give them”defended.
Luís Montenegro also addressed the issue of the Portuguese airline, starting by expressing the hope that “the Assembly of the Republic fulfills its task of control and supervision” to “establish what has happened at TAP in recent years” and stated that the PSD has “availability” for clarification.
“And above all to know the consequences of an incomprehensible, if not absurd, decision by doctor António Costa and the PS government to renationalize a company that had privatized most of its capital,” he added please.
Montenegro also said it hoped that “the government can bring the privatization process to a successful conclusion and apologized to the Portuguese for the hole in the taxpayer’s coffers that the 3.2 ME meant that was the direct and objective responsibility of the PS (. . .) and all those who intervened in this process, which was a disaster” and “a political and financial crime for Portugal”.
On what was the last day in the Guarda district, under the PSD program “We are Portugal”, Luís Montenegro said in a balancing act that “the country has a future” but “it is necessary to have hope and faith in all regions of the country”.
Source: DN
