This Thursday, the Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs quoted former Social Democratic Prime Minister Passos Coelho as praising the “miracle” of the economy, the result of the “great work” of Socialist leaders, and asking parties to “not hide in rhetoric” in the budget debate.
At the beginning of the assessment of the specialty “State Budget 2024” (OE2024), Ana Catarina Mendes, who is accompanied on the bench in the socialist government by secretaries of state from different areas of government, noted that this debate is not only about the budget. , “but about the system of protection that the state must provide for the lives of citizens.”
The Socialist quoted former PSD leader and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho because politics is done “with memory”, a reference that earned a reaction from MPs in the hemisphere.
“Pedro Passos Coelho said on March 1, 2016 that if we could all return salaries, pensions and taxes without money and, in the end, all the bills would come together, that would be fantastic. To be able to achieve your goals, there are either miracles or there are consequences,” he said.
According to Ana Catarina Mendes, the “miracle” in Portugal “is the result of a lot of work” that has been consistently done by her party’s governments, recalling a recent interview by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in the Jornal de Negócios: who argued that what happened in the national economy is something of a miracle.
Having listed the increases in wages, pensions and social benefits that OE2024 will bring from January 1, the minister left a call to other parties: “not to hide in political rhetoric.”
In contrast to the government’s arguments, PSD deputy Hugo Carneiro said that in a few weeks there would be an “orphan budget.”
A Social Democratic parliamentarian believes that if Prime Minister Antonio Costa were to participate in the debate, he would have to “admit that cows do not have wings.”
For his part, Chegi MP Andre Ventura believes that the retreat from controversial budget proposals, such as increasing the IUC for older cars, shows that “the PS never governs with the next generations in mind, it always governs with the next generations in mind.” mind.”elections”.
On the day of former infrastructure minister João Galamba’s return to parliament as an MP, Andre Ventura questioned the presence of a socialist on the bench, criticizing the PS and accusing the socialists of being involved in “corruption.”
This intervention prompted the parliamentary leader of the Socialist Party, Eurica Brillante Dias, to ask for protection of the honor of the college and prove that João Galamba has the right to be present in parliament, like all elected parliamentarians.
After an exchange of accusations between the PS and Chega, discontent flared, it was the turn of IL MP João Cotrim Figueiredo, who began his speech by making it clear that “democracy should not be like this” and that there are parties other than the liberals who “care about the future Portugal.”
Cotrim Figueiredo addressed the proposed changes to the IL and affirmed his “unconditional respect for the Portuguese people who have the right to strive for a prosperous life.”
Regarding the PCP, MP Duarte Alves said that “this budget proposal is very far from the miracle that was announced here and, in fact, represents a missed opportunity” in areas such as housing, health care, teacher tenure, income or financial opportunities. policy.
BE, led by parliamentary leader Pedro Filipe Soares, called its choice a “shark budget”, believing that this is why “the right embraces it so openly.”
PAN’s sole deputy, Ines Souza Real, responded to BE’s arguments that “this country is also not a shark country, not in the literal sense” because if it were there would be a “more protected species”, arguing that OE2024 in housing issues “keep everything the same”.
As for Livre, sole MP Rui Tavares asked the PS how it would “use its absolute majority for the last time”, whether it would only approve its own measures or be “smarter” and also make the opposition proposals viable.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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