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The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, admitted this Monday that We are going through the beginning of a very deep crisis ”. “I have already described it as brutal several times. We are still on the tip of the iceberg, ”he said. in statements to journalists on the sidelines of a visit to the trails of the Serra de Monchique, in the district of Faro.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recalled, however, that measures such as “leave simplified, complements, inheritance regime leave simplified and other social supports that have slowed the increase in unemployment ”. “It is a weakening of a social reality that corresponds to the brutal stop that occurred in the Portuguese economy, as in the European economies and in many world economies,” he added.
The crisis will have a profound impact on many families, said the President of the Republic, “especially on the less young who have difficulties to adapt to the labor market and on the youngest who had projects and who see these projects postponed and who, in many cases, because they had precarious jobs, they are among the first to be fired ”.
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) confirmed this Monday that the Gross Domestic Product of Portugal registered, between April and June of this year, a chain fall of 13.9% in real terms compared to the first quarter of 2020, and of 16 , 3% year-on-year, compared to the same three months of 2019.
Compared to the same period last year, exports of goods and services decreased by 39.5%, more than the 29.9% drop in imports, “due in large part to the near interruption of non-resident tourism” .
The INE explains that the “strong contraction in economic activity reflected the impact of the covid-19 pandemic that was felt with greater intensity in the first two months of the second quarter.”
This Monday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ends a two-day visit to the municipality of Monchique, where he has been in contact with the population of the Caldas de Monchique areas along the mountain roads. At the end of the visit, the President of the Republic will also travel to Faro, where he will visit the Municipal Museum and receive the city’s Key of Honor, before participating in a dinner with the mayors of the Algarve, as part of the contacts he has made. maintained with the municipalities of the region to follow the evolution of the economy after lifting the restrictions imposed by the covid-19 pandemic.
