The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said this Saturday that it is “very fair” to monitor the possible “overuse” of the prices of basic products, and otherwise “it is necessary to know in detail” the Measures proposed by the Government.
“In terms of excessive and unjustified use in all products, mainly in fixed assets, this is very true. As for the rest, it is necessary to study the ideas in detail,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Souza.
The President of the Republic, speaking in Gondomar, Porto district, on the sidelines of the Extraordinary Congress of the Portuguese League of Firefighters, was questioned about the news published this Saturday by Expresso that the government is studying changes to the law. set profit margins.
“The most important thing is to have an idea that it is wrong that in addition to what is in inflation caused by external costs and internal consequences, there are those who use it for speculative purposes. This needs to be controlled and this is a concern that even the government has already stated,” he said.
Marcelo Rebelo de Souza said that everyone “expects and needs” a recovery in growth, but recalled that “it depends a lot on what happens in the world and in Europe.”
According to the Expresso article, if the prices of basic foodstuffs do not fall in the coming weeks, the government will take action.
Ezhedelnik writes that at present the executive branch is studying various measures and does not rule out, for example, the possibility of establishing – albeit in exceptional cases and temporarily – a limit on the amount of profits of producers, industrialists and distributors.