The opposition has increased pressure on the government regarding the negotiations on the 2025 state budget, and this Friday it was the turn of the Liberal Initiative (IL) to threaten to vote against it if the diploma is close to “what the PS policy was”, said the party’s chairman, Rui Rocha, recalling that the AD was elected “to change the country”. To the pressure from the IL is added the pressure from the PS and Chega, who have left the diploma, which will be awarded on October 10, in limbo. The Socialists have assured that they will negotiate “in good faith”, as stated by the leader of the parliament Alexandra Leitão after a meeting with the Minister of Finance Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, but the party has demanded “concessions that are important to us”, as the PS leader Pedro Nuno Santos put it. On behalf of Cega, André Ventura has already admitted that “there is a way” to negotiate, but left a warning to the government of Luis Montenegro: “It is impossible to have a budget that Cega and the PS would like.” Meetings with the opposition will resume in September.