A PAN spokesman classified the government’s announced measures to help families with home loans this Thursday as “minor” and noted that “banking remains sacrosanct.”
“For PAN, these measures, in addition to being late, are nonsense, in fact they sound very little,” Ines de Souza Real said in statements to journalists in parliament after the Council of Ministers approved the housing loan measures. to help families mitigate the impact of rising interest rates.
“We continue the government’s propaganda campaign. The announced measures are not only insufficient, they also do not respond to inflation and the galloping rise in interest rates,” the PAN leader criticized.
The single MP also stated that “the bank remains inviolable.”
“In the first half of the year alone, thanks to higher interest rates, banks have already made a profit of more than two billion euros. It is absolutely unacceptable, immoral that the Portuguese, who extended a helping hand to the banks when the banks needed more, will now consider measures that leave the possibility of renegotiation in the hands of the banks on terms we do not know,” he criticized, pointing out that the Portuguese do not know , “whether they will be punished or whether the banks will have to pay interest on the interest under the moratorium that has been created here.”
The People-Animais-Natureza leader also called for action to help families cope with rising rents and noted that they still have “no solution in sight.”
Ines de Souza Real defended measures such as “subsidized loans for youth, housing students” or “a brake mechanism that prevents a wave of transfers of houses to banks, especially through a mechanism similar to that in place during the pandemic, as was the case with impossibility of seizing the family home.”
“Now it remains to be seen what the government will choose: will it choose to once again remain alone in the monologue of its absolute majority or will it understand once and for all that dialogue with the opposition is a dialogue with the country and achieve the real problems of the country,” he challenged.
This Thursday, the Council of Ministers approved housing lending measures to help families mitigate the impact of rising interest rates, including a measure that ensures that the interest rate does not exceed 70% of the index (Euribor) and another that extends interest rate support. subsidies for housing loans from 720 to 800 euros.
The government is also maintaining the suspension of fees for early repayment of housing loans until the end of 2024.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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