Marcelo criticized government housing policies. Opposition liked to hear | Housing

It is a case to say that “one kills, another skins”. After the President of the Republic went up a notch in his criticism of the Government’s package of measures for housing, the opposition parties, left and right, wanted to make it clear that they agree with the assessment made by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

If in the interview with PÚBLICO two weeks ago the President made it clear that, in his opinion, António Costa’s executive took too long to come forward with measures to respond to the housing crisis – “it is to be commended that after seven years in government, the Government has presented a package of this size – now Marcelo even spoke of a “poster law” which, to this day, is “inoperable”.

“As it is conceived, right from the start, the housing package is inoperable. Either at the point of departure or at the point of arrival”, he said, quoted by the Businessthe head of state at Redaction Aberta, an initiative that marked the anniversary of CMTV and the Morning mail.

On the left, the secretary general of the PCP, Paulo Raimundo, reiterated the collage of the Government’s measures to the parties of the right, considering that, in this matter, PS and executive do not differ from what PSD, Chega and Liberal Initiative (IL) propose.

The Government’s proposals “bypass” the “profits of banking and real estate funds” and aim to give them “State resources”. “I don’t know if this is exactly the criticism of the President of the Republic. This is our criticism and this is where we need to attack”, shot the communist leader.

The deputy and candidate for leadership of the Left Block, Mariana Mortágua, began by saying that, with the statements about the “More Housing” program, the head of state only “noted the obvious” and said what the BE has been defending in the last weeks.

Characterizing the executive’s package of measures as “ineffective and without practical application”, Mariana Mortágua later defended, in the image of what the PCP did, that “in essence” the measures proposed by the socialist executive and by the PSD are identical.

“It is necessary to make an obvious observation. If we exclude from the housing debate measures that are merely folkloric and that will not have any real impact – such as the compulsory renting measure, which it has already been realized that will never see the light of day – in essence the the PS program for housing is the same as the PSD program”, declared the blockist deputy.

President realized “finally”

On the right, IL showed satisfaction that the President had “finally identified the poster law” after “signing so many”, considering that the “More Housing” program was designed as an instrument of “propaganda”.

“It seems to me that, finally, the President of the Republic had time to look at the melon, taste the melon and what he saw is that the melon inside was as bad as it looked on the outside”, said liberal deputy Carlos Guimarães Pinto

“We are pleased that the President of the Republic has finally, after so many years, identified a poster law after having signed so many, we hope that in the future he will continue to identify them”, continued Guimarães Pinto.

The PSD, on the other hand, preferred to point out that the criticisms made by Marcelo show how the Government is increasingly isolated. Through the voice of PSD vice-president António Leitão Amaro, the social democrats defended that after the position adopted by the President, now what matters most “is to ask who is responsible for the criticism that all political, social agents and those responsible for institutions do”.

“It is naturally the Prime Minister, because he was the one who announced these measures. He is responsible for the crisis and the disaster caused in these seven years”, concluded Leitão Amaro, leaving the guarantee that if the Government does not review its proposals, the PSD will vote against. Last week, in Parliament, the PS made it possible for the proposals of the PSD, IL and Livre to become a specialty.

For its part, Chega opted for an unconventional reaction by sending a letter to the President of the Republic requesting that Marcelo “veto the Government’s program on this matter after the severe, accurate and clarifying criticisms he made”.

The president of Chega, André Ventura, tried to conclude that with the statements he made about the program, the President “gave the death sentence” to “Mais Habitação”. “This housing program was folklore, propaganda and artifices that aimed to please the left, a certain left, knowing that it would never be applied”, maintained Ventura.