PS candidate general secretary Pedro Nuno Santos told reporters in Matosinhos (Porto district) today that the PSD pension proposals presented at Saturday’s congress are “not credible.”
“The problem with the promises of the PSD, especially regarding pensions, is that they are not trusted,” accused the candidate for the leadership of the PS today, upon his arrival at the municipal pavilion of Senhora da Gora, where he participated. at a lunch with supporters.
On Saturday, PSD President Luis Montenegro said he wants to increase the minimum guaranteed income for pensioners to 820 euros by 2028, ensuring his party does not cut “a single cent from any pension.”
For Pedro Nuno Santos, the PSD was “the party that mistreated this group of Portuguese citizens the most – the pensioners.”
“It is important that we do not forget that Pedro Passos Coelho [ex-primeiro-ministro] he said the same thing as Luis Montenegro: that he had calculated and that in 2015 there would be no need to cut pensions. But what they did immediately after the elections was to cut pensions,” said Pedro Nuno Santos.
The former Minister of Infrastructure and Housing and opponent of José Luis Carneiro and Daniel Adrián in the PS elections scheduled for December 15 and 16, also accused the PSD of being “not satisfied with the cuts in pensions” and trying to “make this cut permanent.”
“They couldn’t do it, they were stopped by the Constitutional Court,” he recalled, adding that the SDP also wanted to “make an additional discount of another 600 million euros” stopped by the PS government.
Pedro Nuno Santos accused Luis Montenegro of collecting “the same number as Passos Coelho in 2011”, considering it “very important that the PSD present these reports” in order to “discuss the feasibility of the proposal”.
The PS leadership candidate also found it “caricatured” that the SDP was putting forward a proposal to equate the minimum pension to the national minimum wage, even though “they never wanted to raise it.” “The worst thing that can happen to pensioners is that we increase pensions and then go back,” he said.
“The worst thing that can happen to pensioners is that we increase pensions and then go back,” he said.
During his speech to an audience of 1,300 people who filled the Señora da Ora pavilion, Pedro Nuno Santos added that “the PSD needs to say a little more” about “its strategy for social security and the state pension system.”
“For many years they have always defended the transfer of part of our pensions to the financial markets, the privatization of part of our pensions,” Pedro Nuno Santos accused.
The luncheon was attended by the President of the City Council of Matosinhos and the President of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP) Luisa Salgueiro, the President of the Metropolitan Region of Porto (AMP) and the District of PS/Porto Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues, the Minister of Health Manuel Pizarro and the President of the Economic and Social Council Francisco Assis.
Pedro Nuno Santo also had the support of the Secretary of State for Youth and Sports João Paulo Correia and the Minister of Planning Eduardo Pinheiro, as well as other mayors of the region such as Marco Martins (Gondomar), Alberto Costa (Santo Tirso) and other mayors of the region. other.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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