President vetoes housing package as Lisbon rents soar // Heat waves in Portugal to double or worse

Portuguese news in English on Tuesday, August 29, 2023

President vetoes housing package as Lisbon rents soar

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has vetoed the government’s proposed package to combat the housing crisis, Público reports. In a blow to the Socialist Party’s (PS) efforts, Marcelo said the changes were neither “sufficiently credible as far as their execution in the short term” nor sufficiently dyna…