Montenegro responds to housing movements: “We are available”

O prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, assured this Friday that the “Government is available to continue” talking about the crisis in housing, but defended that meetings should follow the usual channels, starting with the Secretary of State of Housing.

“ Over the past two and a half years, there have been several hundred meetings that, within the Housing State Secretariat, have been held with several stakeholders in the housing sector,” he first mentioned in statements to journalists in Dublin, Ireland, after being asked whether he would be able to meet representatives of the Lisbon and Porto camps.

According to Montenegro, these meetings were held with the “local authorities, which are a preferred and privileged partner” and with “non-governmental organisations and associations”, which have been participating in “dinamizing some demonstration days”.

“I repeat what I have already said: the Government is available to continue this dialogue and to be able to speak to representatives who have been appointed by the entities that have been in the context of this group”, he added.

However, Montenegro argued that meetings must be held with the “modality” that the government has “come next”. “First the Secretary of State for Housing and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing”, he shot.

Remember that the President of the Republic, António José Seguro, met this Friday with representatives of the Lisbon Camp, the Porto Camp and the Casa Para Viver platform,

After the meeting, representatives of the movements for the right to housing highlighted that Insurance gave “a political signal” and asked him to mediate with the government to resolve the crisis.

“The Prime Minister cannot continue to flee” and “must follow the example of the President”, urged André Escoval, representative of Casa Para Viver, , warning that “not pacifying the country, this is a fight that will continue”.