Marcelo had already opened hostilities in the joint RTP-Público interview he gave on the 9th to mark his seven years in office in Belém, but on Monday he went even further in criticizing the housing legislative package.
Talk about an initiative Mail tomorrowthe president of the republic (PR) was adamant about the diplomas of the government program More Housing: “As conceived, the housing package does not work from the start. Either at the point of departure or at the point of arrival.Or, to put it another way, “It’s unenforceable.” And these laws are nothing more than “billboard laws”: “These are laws that seem to proclaim certain programmatic principles, but the idea is not exactly that they are put into practice. Is that laws remain posters.”
At the end of the afternoon, Marcelo issued the government decree-law establishing support for rents and housing loans, the only two measures in the package that have already been effectively approved, as they are “necessary and urgent measures”, ” in view of the deteriorating economic situation and social”, but added: “While regretting that they are not more extensive”.
At the end of the afternoon, the PS reacted critically to the words of the PR via the party chairman. According to Carlos César, speaking to Rádio Renascença, Marcelo “has paid less attention” to the need for “balance” between “critical sense” and “institutional complicity” with the government.
The PR’s devastating diagnosis aroused support from the opposition, both on the left of the PS and on the right.
The PSD held the Prime Minister responsible for the current situation in the housing market and warned the government to either adjust its program and follow the direction of the Social Democratic proposals or face full opposition with a vote against.
“More than commenting on what the president of the republic wanted or didn’t want – that’s not even a common thing for us to do – it is to ask who is responsible for the criticisms that all political, social and institutional agents express. is of course the Prime Minister, because he was the one who announced these measures. He is responsible for the crisis and the disaster that has been created in these seven years,” said António Leitão Amaro, vice president of the party.
“Finally the president of the republic had time to look at the melon, taste the melon and what he saw was that the melon was just as bad inside as it was outside.”
André Ventura, from Chega, said he wrote to Marcelo asking him to veto the remaining legislative package when he arrives in Belém. In his opinion, Marcelo has “pronounced the death penalty” for the government’s proposals. “This housing program was folklore, propaganda and artifice designed to please the left, a particular left, knowing it would never be enforced,” he added.
Carlos Guimarães Pinto, from the Liberal Initiative, believed that “the president of the republic finally had time to look at the melon, taste the melon and what he saw was that the melon was as bad inside as it looked looked from the outside”. “We are pleased that the President of the Republic has finally, after so many years, identified a poster law after signing so many of them. We hope that he will continue to identify them in the future,” said the deputy.
On the left, Mariana Mortágua said that Marcelo found “the obvious”, that is, that the government program is “ineffective” and without the possibility of “practical application”. “If we exclude measures from the housing debate that are mere folklore and will have no real impact – such as the already realized compulsory rent measure that will never see the light of day – the housing PS program is essentially the same for the PSD program,” defended the BE deputy.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities, which is led by the PS (Luísa Salgueiro, mayor of Matosinhos), approved a document with “contributions” to be sent to the government. “The proposals are huge,” said the socialist mayor. With RSF
Source: DN
