One check, which will be issued to pensioners in October, will cost “around 400 million euros or perhaps a little more,” Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Paulo Rangel said this Friday.
The extraordinary increase of 100 to 200 euros to the lowest pensions, announced by Prime Minister Luis Montenegro at a political meeting of the PSD, “should cover two million 400 thousand people”, according to government estimates.
A government official expressed regret that the opposition was “alarmed by this social measure” and asked “what is the sensitivity of the PS”, which, through the voice of its leader Pedro Nuno Santos, accused the executive of being “convinced of the need for early elections”.
In response, Rangel said that the fact that the pension increase was not permanent “reveals budgetary responsibility” and stressed that “there will only be elections if the PS general secretary wants it.”
Author: Miguel Bravo Morais And Ricardo Ramos
Source: CM Jornal
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