The PSD president will present the electoral program of the Democratic Alliance on Friday, but the measures that will be included in the document and the macroeconomic scenario on which it is based have been known for several months now.
At the end of September last year, long before the expected bill was scheduled, Luis Montenegro committed to gradually compensating teachers for time worked over five years “at a rate of 20% each year.”
More recently, he promised to close the union issue “within the first 60 days” of a chief executive and unveiled other education commitments: reintroducing assessments in every cycle, reducing bureaucracy in schools, making it easier for them to accept international students and guaranteeing universal and free access to kindergartens and preschool institutions of the “project from 0 to 6 years”.
At the party’s extraordinary congress, which took place on November 25, already in the context of a political crisis, Luis Montenegro said he wanted to increase the base value of the Solidarity Supplement for Senior Citizens (CSI) to 820 euros in the first legislature and make it equivalent to the national minimum wage as far as possible the second legislative body, allowing a revision of the criteria by which this social benefit is provided.
In January, the Democratic Alliance coalition was signed with the CDS-PP and PPM, and at the congress at the end of the same month, the PSD president suggested that the party should come to terms with pensioners and pensioners: in addition to proposals for the CSI, he assured that pensions would be increased in according to the criteria of the law, “valuing those that are lower more,” and promised increased support for the purchase of medicines, for example, “100% support in situations of proven economic insufficiency.” for the treatment of the most chronic pathologies.”
For younger people, PSD has already committed to a top IRS rate for those under 35, as well as exemptions from IMT, stamp duty on housing and the government guarantee to provide 100% bank finance for the purchase of a first home.
At the AD congress, Montenegro also focused on health and promised that in the first two months of the government it leads, it will present an emergency plan that will be implemented before the end of 2025.
Reducing scheduling times for family health consultations using teleconsultations as an alternative and guaranteeing the use of nurses and family doctors, as well as the use of the private and social sectors, are among the commitments of the plan, which also provides for same-day primary care. (for acute illness) or expand the private “voucher” system that already exists in surgery to include specialist consultations in case of excessive waiting times.
On January 24, AD presented the macroeconomic scenario setting the electoral agenda and specified the size of its proposed tax cuts: five billion euros over the next legislature, forecasting economic growth of 3.4% in 2028.
According to estimates by AD coalition economists, this reduction is estimated at three billion euros in the IRS (up to the eighth pillar), 1.5 billion euros in the IRC (which will gradually decrease over three years from the current 21 to 15%) and 500 million for fiscal measures in housing supply.
On this occasion, the PSD President also set the goal that the national minimum wage would reach at least one thousand euros at the end of the legislature, with the average salary being “about 1,750 euros.”
Other pre-election tax commitments include “exemption from contributions and taxes on performance bonuses up to a monthly salary” – already advocated by the Portuguese Business Confederation (CIP) – the creation of a solidarity bonus on remuneration (a type of negative IRS) that would prevent increases in income from work leading to loss of Social Security benefits, or creating tax-exempt savings accounts.
The Democratic Alliance’s housing economic program would launch public-private partnerships for “large-scale” construction and regeneration for both the general population and students, as well as a host of licensing and land ownership changes. in addition to specific measures for young people.
On the other hand, the AD seeks to reverse measures taken by the current government such as “forced tenancies”, rent freezes (alternatively providing subsidies to vulnerable tenants) or the emergency local housing contribution.
Despite many of the measures already known, the SDP leader repeated that he would not “promise everything to everyone” and, for example, did not undertake to establish the status of remuneration for the security forces, despite the fact that he considers the PSP’s statement fair. .and the GNR reported that there is an equalization of the mission allowance already assigned to the judicial police, with a promise to begin immediate negotiations if it is the government.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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