The coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda (BE) said that the housing problem confuses “all generations”, stressing that the price of a house or rent “turns everything into a drama”.
“When we look at housing, all generations are in suspense,” Katarina Martins said this Friday in Braga at the party’s 24th anniversary dinner.
For the leader of the blockade, this is a problem that affects both young people “who cannot leave the house” and the elderly, when they need a “house adapted” to their new needs.
Katarina Martins said that with the cost of housing, even the breakup between the couple became “drama”. “Housing prices turn everything into a drama,” he repeated.
Therefore, he called for active participation in the demonstration for the right to housing, scheduled for 1 April.
“Because the right to housing cannot be a lie, and because the lies that the government tells do not solve any housing problem,” he said.
Catharina Martins said there is a “great malaise” among the Portuguese regarding the government and the situation in the country, citing the general strike of civil servants that took place on Friday as an example.
“This strike is also an expression of this great malaise with the country, with the absolute majority of the socialist party saying every day that everything is fine or that everything will be fine, and only allows problems to accumulate and never solves absolutely nothing. “, He said.
For Katharina Martins, an increase of “nearly 30%” in the cost of a basket of essentials makes going to the supermarket “an exercise in overcoming obstacles to try to figure out what to buy.”
The blockist leader said that all the government’s promises and words about wages and inflation “collapsed”. And, he warned, inflation is a “double whammy.”
“An attack on the wages of those who work, because they pay what they should not, for what they need. As well as attacking the country because they are taking money, the wealth that is produced by those who work, that goes to some “offshore” and will not pay for the school, justice, hospital, medical center, which is fundamental to our state, our democracy, and therefore we work and pay taxes,” he concluded.