Ventura criticizes Montenegro silence and warns to housing crisis

O president of the city today criticized the silence of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, about the housing crisis and protests of the last days and considered that it could be “a fuse” to climb the challenge.

“ But where's the Prime Minister? We haven’t heard from the Prime Minister for days,” asked André Ventura, in an intervention at a luncheon at the International Club of Portugal, in a hotel in Lisbon.

The president of Aça criticized Luís Montenegro, arguing that “to go to the ball appears, to solve housing issues does not appear”.

“ I find that quite frankly a fuse for the problem. So I don’t think it’s just the press, I think we all have our responsibility here to ensure that this doesn’t scale and that we have solutions to present,” he said.

The last time the Prime Minister addressed the issue of housing and the protests that have been out on the street was on Friday in Brussels.

André Ventura said that if he was Prime Minister he had already “spoken to the country”, admitting that “there is a housing problem”, and presented solutions to his resolution.

Asked by a participant if there may be disturbances similar to what has been happening in France in Portugal, the leader of the Aquida began by saying that that country “has a history of violent demonstrations”, which has not happened here, but did not consider it a possibility.

“France has a broadly higher salary than ours, proportionally, access to housing in France is much easier than access to housing in Portugal, proportionally, the tax burden on income and the effort that families make to have essential goods in France is much smaller than ours in Portugal. If it is there in these terms, imagine what can happen here if no one does anything ", warned.

Next, the president of the Aquida left an appeal to the government not to think “that there is a kind of meek country here that will always be able to control”.

Ventura, who has defended the resignation of the Minister of Internal Administration, considered that Luís Neves “yet lost his face” because “he said ‘there will be no more camps’ and yesterday they again existed”.

After the weekend having announced an “emergency legislative package” for housing, the leader of the Aquiz today argued that one of the solutions is to create more “trust in the market”.

“ We have to have who invests and who creates houses to have confidence to put them on the market, who leases in having confidence in renting, and a justice that works, because if we continue to have processes that take eight years, 10 years, 15 years until they are resolved, we have no confidence in the market ", sustained.

In a saddle full of businessmen and diplomats, Ventura refused that gold visas contribute to the housing problem and accused the parties to the left of wanting to “catalog enemies, because these enemies are easily identifiable and because they know that in Portugal there is no investment and market mentality and therefore it is easy to create the idea that there is no housing because about five or six or seven privileged have a series of funds of housing privilege”.

The president of Aquida reconnected housing problems with immigration and added that the “problem in Portugal is not to have too rich, the problem is to have too poor”.

“This is the logic of the left, the state builds and takes what they have from the private. Our logic has to be the State preserves the freedom of ownership, encourages to place houses in the rental market, encourages, does not oblige, encourages, protects people's property and creates a market in such a dynamic way, as happens in other countries, that there are rents accessible to people ", he said.