Prime Minister Luis Montenegro and opposition leader Pedro Nuno Santos have shown that they are “not afraid” to go to the polls if negotiations on the 2025 state budget (GB) fail to produce results.
The first to throw down the gauntlet was the head of government in the National Council of the SDP, when he told the opposition that if the negotiations were “nothing more than a game, then have the courage to overthrow the government.”
On Tuesday it was the PS general secretary’s turn to go on the attack, criticising the executive for “threatening the elections” on a day when the Socialists were talking about the viability of the OE, guaranteeing that “whoever thinks that the PS is afraid of the elections is completely wrong”.
At the end of the Socialist parliamentary days, Pedro Nuno criticized the executive power’s measures regarding the economy and declared that the former President of the Republic and leader of the PSD, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, would be “one of those disappointed with the so-called package” for the sector.
As for Jovem’s IRS, he considered it a proposal that “cannot have the support” of the party, but assured that it “is not a red line” for budget negotiations.
Despite the strong hand, Pedro Nuno Santos stressed that the Socialists “will try to stop what is bad for the country and to protect and try to establish what is good for the country,” while Montenegro said he was “ready to negotiate on many things” but that it could not “distort the essence of our economic policy.”
Author: Joao Reis Alves
Source: CM Jornal
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