The 2,300 euros, the rent, the medium – and who eats the chicken

The bubble and the madness. The affronts and “every shot, every melro.” Paulo Raimundo annoyed with housing issues.

The statements have already become famous. Miguel Pinto Luz, Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, said that “in Portugal alone” is that a couple whose salaries can pay an income of 2,300 euros is considered “rich”.

By explaining government measures against the housing crisis, the minister said that 2,300 euros are the threshold of a “moderate income” – for the government.

“This is middle class, and the middle class also needs help,” said Miguel Pinto Luz, who has already assured that the government does not want to decree lace 2,300 euros.

Paulo Raimundo thinks the government lives in another country: “It’s a affront, one shame, Someone in our country, in this real country, considering that an income of 2,300 euros is a moderate income, ”adding that this thesis is a” madness. “

The PCP Secretary-General recalled that about 1 million reformed in Portugal only receives 500 euros per month and that more than 3 million workers receive a gross salary of less than 1,000 euros.

Raimundo stressed the case of Oeiras (where it was, in a ruin), which is even from the municipalities with higher average yield; But still it is not enough for many to pay an income of 2,300 euros.

It is the problem of averages: “We already know the history of the chicken: There are two people, there is a chicken; I like the whole chicken and, on average, each one eats half“.

The communist deputy thinks that the Government DaA, “you lives in another country, in a bubbleor are they just serve a huge minority“.

Tents and bubble

The PCP secretary-general accused the prime minister of “affront” and “enjoying the drama of thousands of families” to campaign, stressing that there are thousands of tents that are “direct government responsibility”.

Speaking to journalists before a rally at Praça da Corujeira, in Porto, Paulo Raimundo reacted to Prime Minister’s statementswho stated that The tents and neighborhoods of Lata have resurfaced mainly in PS and CDU authorities.

“The Prime Minister lives in a bubble. It is hard to say this, but it is as I said: it is Each shot, each mello“Replied Paulo Raimundo, considering that, in the statements he made about the tents, Luís Montenegro forgot“ two details ”.

“The first detail is that there are two thousand tents, two thousand dwellings degraded in the territory of the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), in Almada. Now, if I do not see bad, IHRU is a direct responsibility of the government,” he said.

On the other hand, the PCP Secretary-General stressed that if there is a municipality where, “unfortunately”, there are a significant number of people to “live in unworthy conditions” is Lisbon, a chamber currently chaired by Carlos Coins, the PSD mayor, where “11,500 household aggregates live in unworthy conditions”.

“Therefore, there are no words to describe the affront. The Prime Minister, each time he speaks in housing, is feet shots“, He defended, accusing Luis Montenegro of” living in the world where the lace of 2,300 euros are moderate lace, “he repeated.

“But the country is not that. He who cares about solving the problem of housing throughout the territory. Not now will take advantage of the drama of thousands of families to campaign for the municipalities,” he said.