SDP will abstain from a vote of no confidence in Chege in the government

This Thursday, the president of the PSD told MPs that the party would refrain from a vote of no confidence in Chega’s government, which he called “childish and childish”.

“We are not a party of proposals, we are a party of solutions,” Luis Montenegro said at a meeting of the PSD parliamentary group he is attending today, according to Lusa’s reports of the meeting taking place behind closed doors. .

Following the meeting, in statements to journalists, Montenegro confirmed that Cega’s proposal was “useless” and insisted that the PSD’s priority was “the lives of the Portuguese” and not “parliamentary games.”

“The parliamentary group is absolutely united, and in this reading there was a consensus that the party is focused on the real problems of the people,” he assured at the end of the meeting, which lasted just over an hour and with few speeches, apart from two broken ones by the president.

In the hall, at the end of his speech, the SDP president was applauded by deputies.

Chega’s proposal will be formalized Friday, the first day of the second legislative session, and is scheduled to be debated and voted on next Tuesday.

In front of deputies, Montenegro criticized the initiative of the party led by Andre Ventura, “announced six months in advance,” which will force Chega to miss the opportunity to condemn the government in the first week of the new legislative session, “and then complain for a year.”

For the SDP leader, it is a “suggestion for improvement” that “does neither good nor harm” and will even momentarily ease the government “when the majority rises to vote against it.”

“We don’t play with proposals, we present solutions. The important point is the debate the next day: tax cuts,” he said, referring to the debate on the SDP tax cut proposals scheduled for the 21st.

The PSD president questioned whether the proposal “would lead to reductions in family benefits, food and housing prices, or whether the ‘fiscal attack’ would also solve the problems of social networks.

The SDP abstained from two votes of no confidence submitted to the current government: the first, put forward by Chega last July, and the second, proposed by IL in January.

In the case of IL, the PSD’s abstention caused some controversy in the college: deputies Andre Coelho Lima and Carlos Eduardo Reis defended in a statement about the vote that the PSD had reasons to approve the Liberals’ text, warning of the risks. “lack of differentiation” during abstinence.

In her speech, which lasted more than half an hour, Montenegro emphasized that “the eyes of the Portuguese” were and will be focused on the PSD.

Regarding taxes and the possibility of prioritizing cuts to the IRS, he emphasized that “the SDP is the party of the middle class,” “those who depend on their labor, on the product of their efforts.”

“I defend today what I defended as the PSD presidential candidate: the priority is to reduce income taxes,” he said in response to criticism from the PS, which accused the party of changing priorities, as it did under Rui’s previous leadership in Rio . ran for election defending IRC downgrade to the IRS.