Mariana Mortágua defended that the houses that are built in the Algarve «are not for those who live and work in the Algarve» and defended a housing policy that guarantees that this does not happen, during a rally that the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) promoted yesterday, Saturday , in Boliqueime, in the municipality of Loulé.
In this campaign action, while the BE coordinator focused on the housing problem, José Gusmão, head of this party's list for the Algarve in the Legislative Elections on March 10, focused his intervention on the drought.
For Mariana Mortágua, the housing crisis is closely linked to the weight of tourism in the economy in the Algarve, which «translates into a lot of seasonal employment and a lot of low-paid employment».
Regarding the housing crisis, he considered that «the supply of housing is seasonal and is out of step with economic activity: when there is a house there is no work and when there is work there is no house».
The Block's coordinator rejects the idea that the housing problem "can be solved by building more and more everywhere"
«Visit any of the municipalities in the Algarve, and you will find continuous construction, everywhere, even in environmentally protected areas, even in areas saturated with construction, and the problems of access to housing and housing costs have not been resolved», houses that, he argued, «are not for those who live and work in the Algarve».
«You need houses to live in, houses that your salaries can pay for. There are many economic sectors with investment potential to invest your money in and there are many hotels to welcome tourists,” he believes.
Another topic that BE focused on, at this rally, was the “water catastrophe” in the region, this time, through the voice of José Gusmão, who said it was necessary to “solve the problem of water and inequality”, rejecting the “blind cuts for families and farmers imposed by the Government and local authorities».
For José Gusmão, the announced cuts are an “ineffective and unfair” measure, which will “penalize families, and particularly families with lower incomes”.
Along with emergency measures, the block candidate argues that it is necessary to “think about what to do in the future”, investing in an economic model compatible with the environmental reality of the Algarve. To achieve this, it is necessary to make «courageous choices that hold those who define the economic model in the Algarve accountable».
The Bloc candidate for the Algarve also asked for structural investment from the Government in the region and said it was necessary to “overcome this chronic forgetfulness”.
The rally also featured the intervention of António Branco, former rector of UAlg and representative of the Algarve candidacy, who argued that the result of the useful vote in the last elections was «an unexpected and unwanted absolute majority».
«The concentration of votes in a single party in the name of fear causes undesirable results and eliminates the productivity of the left in defining public policies», he argued.
António Branco also highlighted that «the contraption taught us that only a majority of the left is capable of developing public policies that attack the country's most urgent problems».
Other topics on the agenda, in BE's campaign action in Loulé, were health and education, which were addressed by Guadalupe Simões, second candidate on the Bloc's lists as an independent and leader of the Nurses' Union, and by João Afonso, professor and fifth candidate of the Bloc for Faro.
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