This Monday, the President of the Liberal Initiative asked the Prime Minister to clarify whether there was “any interference” in the case of the twins, who live in Brazil and received treatment worth four million euros at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.
Speaking to journalists in the Palacio de Belém, at the end of an audience with the President of the Republic, Rui Rocha noted that it was “the responsibility of António Costa” to clarify what happened and whether the government had “any intervention” in this case.
Stating that this “treatment was decided by who knows who, as the doctors involved did not speak out in support of it”, the IL leader also wants the Prime Minister to say “whether he knows what happened” and “whether he did anything like additional efforts to find out what happened.”
“There are a number of questions that were left unanswered by those who were obliged to answer. The President of the Republic has already shared his opinion about these facts, but the Prime Minister has not yet come to explain to the Portuguese, and I believe that At a time when we have so many difficulties with the Portuguese people’s access to the national health system, the Prime Minister really obliged to come and clarify what happened in this case,” he said.
Rui Rocha made this challenge after being asked about the Prime Minister’s response to Dr. Antonio Sarmento, published this Monday in the newspaper Público.
On this occasion, he believes that the words of António Costa are nothing more than “a set of intentions, numbers that are thrown around, but the results do not exist.”
“This is an attempt to direct numbers, intentions and propaganda at problems without solving them,” he criticized.
The IL President spoke at the Palacio de Belém in Lisbon at the end of a meeting of the party delegation with the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who this Monday began a round of hearings for parties with seats in Parliament. provided for in the state budget for 2024.
The delegation also included party vice-president Ana Vasconcelos Martins, parliamentary leader Rodrigo Saraiva and deputy and former leader João Cotrim de Figueiredo.
Rui Rocha announced that IL will present proposals for changes to next year’s budget “that have a very clear focus on making Portugal grow and function.”
“We will present an extremely ambitious proposal to cut the IRS – I would say the most ambitious that has ever been presented by any party in this budget – and the feature of which is the introduction of a lower, simpler and fairer IRS for all Portuguese,” he pointed out. explaining that it would be “a flat rate for the lowest incomes and the middle class.”
The IL President stated that the government’s proposal “is not the only possible budget, there are other possible budgets and one of them is the one that IL is implementing through its proposals.”
Asked about the privatization of Efacec, Rui Rocha said that the topic had not been discussed with the President of the Republic, but stressed the “absolute need” to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the sale of the company, already proposed by IL. and Chega.
The liberal also noted that he did not have “any conversation” on this topic with the leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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