In a group on the social network Facebook called Brasileiros em Portugal, with more than 350 thousand members, the Parliament’s decision to suspend complaints of lease contracts and evictions gained prominence among messages and reports from Brazilians who said they had been fired and received notices to leave properties leased where they live in Portugal.
Nicolle Ravena, who lives in Porto, told Lusa that she was fired from a restaurant where she worked and when she told her landlady what happened, she immediately received an informal eviction notice.
“I sent a message to the owner of the property where I live to tell her that the restaurant where she worked closed indefinitely. The rental agreement is in the name of someone else and I wanted to report these problems because I didn’t know what to do. told me to leave until April 1st “, said the Brazilian immigrant.
“If she is unable to make the payment by April 1, she will [senhoria] I said that I will have to leave the apartment. I sent her a report on the new law that temporarily prevents evictions, but she replied that it is within her rights and, as the lease is not in my name, I do not know what to do because I have no money to change or buy a ticket back to Brazil, “he added.
Carolina Leitão Chilinque, another Brazilian who lives in Lisbon with her husband and a six-year-old son, said she had read on social media dozens of reports from people whose landlords simply asked for the property by the end of the month.
“And where are they going? How are they going to pay for the new house?”
“My best friends are almost out of food at home because they have been released from work and have a nine-year-old son. I have family members who four months ago asked for repatriation via the embassy and we have no news of them since [eles] no longer have a mobile phone number “, he added.
Another person who has already felt the impact of the new coronavirus on the economy and the labor market is the Brazilian Márcia Regina dos Santos.
“With this history of the coronavirus, the place where I worked closed. I used to work in a coffee shop in Lisbon, I live in Barreiro, in the Setúbal region. The coffee shop closed, we were all fired because the owner already predicts that there will be an economic crisis and he won’t have how to pay wages and expenses, “he said.
Márcia Regina dos Santos moved to Portugal twice. She said she returned to the country three years ago, but she may have to return to Brazil because she lives in a rented house and is afraid of not having the money to pay her bills.
“My landlady has not yet touched on the subject, said nothing, but we are all afraid of not having the money to pay the rent, the electricity, the water. So far the Government has done nothing, what they have done is to close the trade “he explained.
“We already had a crisis between 2009 and 2010. The country was in a complicated situation, but it managed to get up. Now the problem is worldwide, the problem is not only here. Portugal is a small country and to get out of this crisis it will be I hear many Brazilians saying that they will go back [para o Brasil] because what held us here was the issue of safety, health. The rest is very similar to Brazil. Little is gained and a lion killed a day to survive “, he concluded.
The new coronavirus, responsible for the covid-19 pandemic, was detected in December in China and has already infected more than 308,000 people worldwide, of whom more than 13,400 died.
The European continent is currently the one with the highest number of cases, with Italy being the country with the highest number of fatalities worldwide. It records 4,825 deaths in 53,578 positive diagnoses and, of those infected, 6,062 have already been cured by the authorities.
The countries most affected after Italy and China are: Spain, with 1,720 deaths in 28,572 infections; Iran, with 1,556 deaths among 20,610 cases; France, with 562 fatalities in 14,459 diagnosed; and the United States of America, with 340 deaths out of 26,747 infected.
In Portugal, the Directorate-General for Health indicated today that the outbreak of covid-19 has already caused 14 deaths and 1,600 infected people.
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