Montenegro announces greater use of state heritage for accessible housing

The president of the PSD and prime minister announced this Sunday more investment for accessible housing and that the government will give the state departments a deadline to justify unused heritage.

1,300 million euros -It is the value that the prime minister promised to invest in accessible housing.

At the closing session of the 21st edition of the Summer University of the PSD, which today ends in Castelo de Vide (Portalegre), Luís Montenegro He announced that the government wants to give this week “a new impetus to housing,” and announced several measures.

As a first measure, it announced that next Thursday will be signed with the European Investment Bank (bei) a line of credit of another 1.300 million euros for the domain of accessible housing.

But the Government wants to “go further” in the use of heritage stategiving a deadline to all public entities to say why this heritage is not being used.

“We are fooling each other here, it will end. We will not watch that public heritage is being degraded without use and without justification. Where there is no justification must be made available to be taken advantage of, either in the public sphere or in the private sphere, ”he said.

Refusal to negotiate OE with “red lines”

In his speech, Luís Montenegro also anticipated that the discussion of the next budget of the state and warned the opposition that the government will not negotiate based on ultimatums or red lines.

“It will be very difficult for the opposition to find arguments to doubt the essence of the state budget,” he said, asking him not to dramatize around the approval of this document, as if it were a “question of life or death.”

Montenegro stressed that he does not expect “the opposition to beat Palmas to government measures” – but arguing that the executive even deserved – and said “No one will stop being in opposition because of the budget” Not most PSD/CDS-PP of being in government.

About the meetings that start next week with the parties, the Prime Minister expressed government availability to hear and integrate opposition contributions, but left a warning.

“Those who arrest themselves only to political plays and communicational management will fail to the country and people won’t forget that,” he said.

On the other hand, he added, the government will not negotiate “at the base of any ultimatum, red lines,” but “on the basis of moderation, the base of the constructive spirit.”

Montenegro responds to Marcelo and Marques Mendes

In his 45 -minute intervention, Montenegro took the opportunity to respond implicitly to those who passed the Summer University of the PSD, such as the President of the Republic or the candidate for Belém Marques Mendes.

“I think it’s redundant to say it, but I will tell you so that there is no mistake: We are not just moderate, we are social democrats. We are uncompromising in the affirmation that the free initiative is the engine of society, it is the engine of wealth creation, but the state has a role that it will never abdicate not to leave anyone behind it, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity and regulating markets when they have to be regulated to serve interest, ”he said.

The prime minister added that “there are many people with difficulty seeing what is the strategic alignment of the government, what is the purpose of the government,” to which he said it is “a modern country, a thriving country, an economically solid country, a country that presents itself in the international context by positive differentiation.”

Montenegro also responded to PS criticism, which accused the government of making “one” and “a trick” in the IRS descent in August and September to “artificially increase the Portuguese performance” and have more vote in the municipalities.

“I even found their grace to those who now seem almost angry that people are paying less taxes and saw that it was a trick. No, there is no trick. People are really paying less taxes”, Ripostou.