Luis Montenegro promises to raise wages, control immigration and admits he will ‘substitute justice’ for security forces

Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, presented this Friday in Lisbon the electoral program of the Democratic Alliance.

He says he wants to “imagine change and build the future, starting from March 10,” adding that change is in the hands of the Portuguese.

The SDP president explains that the AD program “offers reform ambitions and social responsibility and is supported by good reviews.”

“At AD we want to turn the page of despair and open the page of hope. Portugal is not like that and shouldn’t be like that. A country that throws millions of people into poverty,” he says.

“We are here to do something new, with great ambitions and hopes,” he adds.

Luis Montenegro says he wants to “create a productive and competitive economy.” It aims to improve the “skills of the Portuguese people with demand and rigor”, while reducing poverty, valuing and rewarding work, with “serious and transparent management”.

“We propose to reduce taxes for the middle class and youth, increase wages and pensions, reform the state and the economy to increase productivity. We also want quality education, value teacher careers, and engage teachers in those careers. Build and rehabilitate more beds, “cutting unnecessary costs, providing conditions and opportunities for Portugal’s children through a tax on low incomes and access to housing. We want to establish a program and concrete measures that ensure fairness and transparency,” he explains.

Montenegro also says it wants IMT exemption and IRS cuts, as well as controlled immigration and the return of Portuguese emigrants.

On healthcare, he explains that he intends to “save SNS and provide everyone with a quality service” by guaranteeing everyone a response from a family doctor by the end of 2025, a surgery voucher that allows for an automatic response when response time is reached. exceeded.

On housing, it guarantees young people a full exemption from housing credit and BMI tax when buying their first home.” He adds that he wants a “state in the service of the people”, abandoning the “state in the service of the party” as has happened in recent years.

On education, the party seeks to restore teacher work hours, create even stronger incentives in areas with greater teacher shortages, free services for preschools and kindergartens, and IRS deductions for laid-off teachers.

It recognizes the restoration of justice. “We want the security forces to restore the justice that is rightly demanded, and that is why we will start a dialogue with the security forces,” he says, adding that they do not forget “the firefighters, the civil defense and the farmers.”