Lace: Montenegro announces changes to tenants and landlords

Increased deductions to collection for tenants and decreased rates for landlords. Refuses dismissing employees and foresees 2% this year.

The Prime Minister announced on Wednesday that the Council of Ministers will approve today, Thursday, a set of measures in the area of ​​housing, including increased deductions to collection for tenants and decreased rates for landlords.

Luís Montenegro spoke in the initial intervention in the biweekly debate in the Assembly of the Republic.

“The focus is on promoting housing at moderate prices for the Portuguese and, in particular, for the middle class,” he said.

Among the measures to be approved on Thursday, the prime minister highlighted four.

“For tenants, Already in 2026, an increase to 900 euros and, in 2027, to 1,000 euros, from deduction to the collection of IRS from charges with housing incomes at moderate prices, ”he said.

To the landlords, The Prime Minister pointed out “the reduction of the IRS rate from 25 to 10% in hostel lease contracts to moderate incomes.”

“Third, the end of the surplus value of IRS In the sale of dwellings if the amount is reinvested in properties for moderate lease, ”he added.

As a fourth measure, he pointed out “ simplification of licensing In the legal regime of urbanization and building, shortening deadlines and speeding up processes ”.

Refuses dismiss employees

The president of the liberal initiative criticized the government for not knowing the exact number of workers public administration and for conforming to “Mediocre” results in the sectorBut the Prime Minister warned her as soon as she refused to dismiss employees.

These positions were exchanged by Mariana Leitão and Luís Montenegro in the same biweekly debate.

In his first biweekly debate as IL leader, Mariana Leitão confronted the prime minister with the alleged existence of about nine thousand teachers who said they do not know what they do but receive salary.

In this context, he attacked Education Minister Fernando Alexandre, for assuming he has no reliable numbers about the number of employees in his sector, something that, in his perspective, has serious consequences in the financial management of a government.

“We are paying salaries to people who do not work in schools or we are leaving thousands of students without classes while Do resources spend without any control?”He asked.

In the answer, Luís Montenegro praised his minister Fernando Alexandre’s “frankness” for assuming that those of the Ministry of Education were not reliable and stressed that state reform “is a political design” of the current government.

Then he drew a line of demarcation in the face of the liberal initiative: “The MP may be able to put the possibility of dispear or dismissing or dismissing public officials, but we do not put this possibility.”

The alternative, according to the executive leader, is to have a public administration with “employees who compose it properly motivated and to do what is necessary to be done. ”

“When the government wants simplify The operation of management, when it wants to streamline processes, is also dealing with human resources. We are also dealing with the possibility of being able to have the savings Sufficient that can be used to increase the conditions of appreciation, both salary and career, public administration officials. This is our way, not losing sight of the balance of public accounts ”, He stressed the prime minister.

In the replica, Mariana Leitão required to know about Luís Montenegro if he is known if he is paying nine thousand more wages regarding employees who are supposedly placed. And the Prime Minister answered him that he “presumed” who are working unless they have any instrument that enable them from a legal point of view. “Another situation.

“The Prime Minister presumes,” said the president of IL. In this context, he contested the executive’s leader’s refusal not to make goods.

“It does not seem to be on average in number of employees, but far below in results: is this not the perfect definition of incompetence and mismanagement of human resources?

In this debate, Mariana Leitão also accused the government of “copying” proposals from the liberal initiative, something that Luis Montenegro refused. He replied, “We count on the positive contributions of the liberal initiative and, finally, we somehow apologize for excess language.”

“But we do not copy the ideas of the liberal initiative: we can sometimes have equal ideas. And one or again we can effectively take advantage of those that actually have the condition of feasibility to produce good results.”

Close to 2%

The Prime Minister today requested responsibility for discussing the State Budget, saying that “the country cannot be hostage to political crises”, and provides for a growth close to 2% and a surplus of 0.3% this year.

In his initial intervention in the biweekly debate in Parliament, Luís Montenegro said the government “will do everything to ensure the stability and continuation of the country’s good economic and financial performance”, recalling that there were meetings with all parliamentary groups.

However, he warned that the approved government program is the PSD/CDS-PP, which was not rejected by Parliament.

“This is not a time of party political agendas, often selfish, let alone the time to have political instability. responsibility e availability To put the national interest and the Portuguese ahead of any particular interest, ”he said.

Montenegro stressed that, given the international context, “Portugal must remain a headlight”.

“The country can not and should be hostage to political crises dictated by party whims or even personal,” he warned.

On public accounts, the prime minister admitted that the context is “Very challenging”, But it stated that the government will maintain its main objectives.

“Firstly, we have in 2025 an above -average economic growth of the European Union, close to 2%, and a surplus to surround the 0.3% and the continuation of a trajectory to reduce public debt ratio,” he said, considering that “these goals are achievable.”