António Costa returns to general policy debates in Parliament this afternoon, at a time when prices of essential goods, namely food, continue to dominate the agenda. Last week, at the end of the Council of Ministers, the leader of the executive himself postponed the presentation of a new set of measures to support families and the economy for tomorrow. “The Council of Ministers will approve a series of other types of support measures, which have nothing to do with housing and of which final design depends on having final data on budget implementation for year 2022″said Antonio Costa. A theme that should be on the table this Wednesday.
Another mandatory point in this afternoon’s debate is housing, at a time when the government’s legislative package to tackle the housing crisis is drawing criticism from various quarters. Starting with Belém, where the President of the Republic gradually criticized the measures announced by the government, most of which will be approved by the Council of Ministers on March 30. Already today, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa returned to the subject to say so the forced renting of vacant houses, one of the most controversial measures announced by the executive, “would benefit from reconsideration”.
“I’ve been saying the same thing for a week, there’s still a lot to debate in parliament. what was announced would benefit from reconsideration because the councils have already said they won’t help, they don’t have the resources to help track down vacant houses and then the system is very bureaucratic and cumbersome”, the president of the republic told RTP. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa underlined that “a lot of water will still flow under the bridges” until the diploma ends the legislative process in the assembly of the republic, and said that he hoped that parliamentary negotiations ,” namely with the PSD, result in laws that can pass and that mainly serve to solve problems”.
The last parliamentary debate on general policy with the Prime Minister took place on January 11, still in the wake of the resignation of the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, and several secretaries of state, following the controversial half-million-euro indemnity pays Alexandra Reis to leave TAP’s administration.
Source: DN
