PSD president Luís Montenegro said Thursday evening that the current government will be “the most communist government there has been in Portugal since the April Revolution” if it does not change the measures of the More Housing program.
“How is it possible, in a crucial area of people’s lives, in an area imminent of municipal and regional intervention, as is the case with housing, the Prime Minister recalled a national strategy, a package of measures, without even but to have heard the municipalities and the autonomous regions?”, he warned, emphasizing that for this reason “there are as many missteps as those shown by this housing package”.
Luís Montenegro was speaking at a dinner in Câmara de Lobos, west of Madeira, as part of the 1st PSD Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, which runs through Friday in the autonomous region, an initiative aimed at “debating and exchanging ideas” between social-democratic delegates to the legislative assembly, members of the European Parliament (whose delegation is led by José Manuel Fernandes) and members of the regional government (PSD/CDS-PP).
The PSD leader said the socialist government, led by António Costa, is showing “lightness” in the measures it proposes for the housing sector, criticizing in particular the policy of “forced rent”.
“If it is not lightness, then she [Governo] they will even have to tell the country that it is a deep belief, that the rental market will become more effective and dynamic with forced leasing,” he said.
Montenegro stressed that the executive now has only two alternatives: it listens to the municipalities and the autonomous regions and changes that pretension, or it will have to assume that this is in fact its policy.
“And if this continues, we will not fail to say that this is the most communist government that has existed in Portugal since the April revolution,” he declared.
Prior to Luís Montenegro’s intervention, the leader of the regional structure of the PSD and President of the Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, had already stated that the Mais Habitação program constituted a “flagrant violation of private property rights”, as it no longer was happened since “the mess”. revolutionary 75″ and particularly criticized the plan to abolish “golden” visas and the issuance of local accommodation permits as a “blockade of foreign investment”.
After several criticisms from the Republic government, Albuquerque said it was necessary to “commit seriously” to education, as “teachers cannot be treated as second-class citizens.”
“Millions and millions of euros are being invested in companies that serve no purpose, such as TAP, and we are not supporting teachers who are essential to education,” he warned.
Source: DN
