“If there is an international crisis that affects tourism, we will enter a deep crisis. That’s why we need to have industries for this type of activity”these.
Gouveia e Melo spoke to journalists after a visit to a modular house construction factory, in Montijo, in the district of Setúbal, highlighting that it is a solution that “allows you to quickly respond to housing needs”with “lower costs, better quality, less time to respond”.
“Portugal has to reinvent itself. We have a housing problem. What we are seeing here in this factory is that there are solutions for all problems, as long as there is energy, will, so, of course, these solutions also need to be supported”these.
Pointing out that “Portugal invests very little in the housing market”Gouveia e Melo considered that spaces must be made available for construction and that the country must improve laws to reduce bureaucracy in the process of building modular homes.
Regarding the planned reduction in VAT to 6% for construction, Gouveia e Melo considered that these tax incentives should not be extended to everyone “blindly”, but rather applied to those “who are in the best position to solve the problem”.
The presidential elections are scheduled for January 18, 2026.
This is the 12th time (including the two rounds of the 1986 elections) that the Portuguese have been called, since 1976, to choose the President of the Republic in democracy.
António Filipe (with the support of the PCP), António José Seguro (supported by the PS), André Ventura (supported by Chega), Catarina Martins (supported by BE), Henrique Gouveia e Melo, João Cotrim Figueiredo (supported by the Liberal Initiative), Jorge Pinto (supported by Livre) and Luís Marques Mendes (with the support of the PSD and CDS-PP) announced their candidacies for the presidential elections.
According to the candidacy portal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are another 31 citizens who are collecting signatures for a candidacy for the Presidency.