The leader of the Liberal Initiative said today that at the end of the legislature, the Portuguese will have an average net salary of 1,500 euros and that “in the first month” there will be family doctors for pregnant women, the elderly and children, if affected. control.
At a lunch with his supporters in Lisbon, Rui Rocha presented five goals with which the party wants to “transform Portugal” and which will be included in the electoral program to be presented next week.
In terms of salaries, IL has set a target of €1,500 net per month for the average salary (corresponding to a gross salary of €2,130), which “far exceeds the ambitions that others have.”
“And they ask how? With serious growth and serious tax cuts, we will allow the Portuguese to have an average net salary of 1,500 euros per month when we reach 2028,” he said.
On health, as a second “immediate goal,” the IL leader has committed to ensuring that some specific groups have a family doctor “in the first month,” in addition to the structural changes he believes need to be made in the sector.
“In the first month, pregnant women, children under nine years of age and Portuguese people over 65 years of age will consult a family doctor,” he said, noting that these groups most often resort to emergency services.
If this cannot be done using the SNA alone, he explained, it will be done using “contracts with private parties.”
Another 250,000 homes built or under construction at the end of the legislature, the opportunity for retired teachers to return to teaching while building up a pension for a “true learning recovery program,” and cutting administrative justice timelines to less than half are three other commitments today took over the IL presidency in early legislative elections on March 10.
In the housing sector in particular, Rui Rocha presented a proposal to solve the supply problem.
“IL’s goal is to add 250,000 homes built or under construction by 2028,” he said.
Rocha recalled that ten years ago in Portugal about one hundred thousand houses were built per year, and currently the average has fallen to 20 thousand, given that 60 thousand houses per year can be achieved “through tax cuts, simplification and the introduction of free assets states.”
In education, Rui Rocha cited the recent negative results of Portuguese students in the international PISA test and said a “real emergency learning recovery program” was needed.
One commitment is to reintroduce GCSEs and another is to encourage retired teachers to return to teaching.
“We’re going to tell retired teachers that they can come to work and get paid and build up a pension,” he said, setting a goal for “82.5% of students to score positive” on the next PISA exam.
The latter commitment relates to “expediting administrative justice”, since on average trials at first instance take 850 days, a period IL wants to reduce to less than a year, with greater use of administrative arbitration and the introduction of adjudication of special competence.
“Five clear legislative goals for education, health, justice, wages and housing. A program that will be difficult for Portugal,” Rui Rocha said at a lunch before about a hundred supporters, including the head of the list from Lisbon, a lawmaker. Bernardo Blanco.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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