Carlos César thinks that the important thing is to hold the enterprises and to avoid the bankruptcies and the unemployment
The president of the Government of the Azores said that, in 2009, more important than the interest rates and than the fuels, which are even going to go down, is that the enterprises hold on and that it is possible to give them conditions so that they continue their activity and secure the work posts.
“It is there that the Regional Government is useful, it is there that the Regional Government will have to work”, guaranteed Carlos César, adding that in this time of crisis for the whole world, “where one hears of thousands and thousands of dismissals and of bankruptcies, it is important to hold our enterprises, our economy and our jobs”.
Showing his optimism – which he justifies for the health of the regional finances, which allows, now, to have availability to invest, when others don’t have it – he said that the Government also had already “the discernment and the opportunity for approving a set of measures that are going to benefit the income of the families”.
On the other side, it added the president of the Government, the Azores now kept more competences, in result of, two days ago, in the Assembly of the Republic, the Political-Administrative Statute of the region having been “approved by all the parties, except for one, meaning with that that today the Azorean autonomy is respected in the country, which is a responsible autonomy, with results, which is included in a national project and which is recognized by the generality of the political parties”.
Carlos César was speaking by chance of the delivery, which he presided, of ten new dwellings, in supported rent regime, to families with serious housing problems. The houses make part of an undertaking, in Covoada, constituted by sixty houses, forty of which built at controlled costs and the remaining ones meant for re-accommodations, and in which the Regional Government invested five million euros.
By the way, he told that the Government solved, in the last decade, problems of dwelling to more than fifteen thousand Azorean families, “in a long effort and that has to be tireless”, paying attention to the cases still for solving.