The Portuguese government has confirmed that it will revoke the measures of the country's Mais Habitação (More Housing) programme that it considers "wrong", including forced rentals, rent freezes and "penalising measures" for local accommodation.
The Programme of the XXIV Constitutional Government, presented this Wednesday in the Assembly of the Republic, fulfils what the Democratic Alliance (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) promised when it ran in the most recent legislative elections in March, and assumes the "determination" to repeal some of the decisions of the previous Socialist executive, reflected in Law 56/2023, which came into force on 7th October 2023.
With regard to local accommodation, the Government Programme indicates that the extraordinary contribution on this activity and the expiry of licences prior to the Mais Habitação programme will be revoked "immediately". The executive also states that it will review "other legal limitations" on local accommodation that are "considered disproportionate".
The previous Socialist government also approved the forced rental of abandoned buildings, a measure that the PSD/CDS-PP government will repeal, as opposed to the "almost automatic injection into the market of vacant or underused public properties and land".
The Programme of the XXIV Constitutional Government was delivered this April by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Pedro Duarte, to the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco.
The document was approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday and will be discussed in the plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic. The government led by Luís Montenegro has the support of 80 MPs - 78 from the PSD and two from the CDS-PP - out of 230, in a parliament in which the PS has 78 seats, Chega 50, the Liberal Initiative eight, the BE five, the PCP four, Livre also four and the PAN one.
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