The President of the CIP said this Friday that he agrees with the decision of the President of the Republic to dissolve Parliament, which will make the state budget for 2024 (OE2024) viable, but considers the four-month period before the elections to be excessive.
“We believe that there was not much room to maneuver differently, either in calling elections or in creating the conditions so that some form of budget could be approved. The only point on which we perhaps disagree is the timing of the elections,” Armindo Monteiro said in a statement to Lusa.
According to the leader of the CIP – Confederação Empresarial de Portugal, the approval of OE2024 in itself would not be decisive if not for the current inflationary context: “The legislator already foresaw that in moments of political crisis the state could work with a duodecimal regime that would not cause us special shocks, but in conditions of significant inflation it is not easy to maintain the country’s operation in this mode,” he said.