“In recent years, the only government that has reduced pensions was the PS government,” Luis Montenegro said on Friday at the presentation of the Democratic Alliance (AD) election program in Lisbon. The PSD leader was the only one to speak, but in the front row stood Nuno Melu, president of the SDS, several list leaders, including Paulo Rangel and Assunção Esteves, to whom Montenegro sent a “special kiss” at the end of the speech. speech. “We don’t pretend to be better. We intend to serve our country,” said the PSD president, then noting measures aimed at young and old people, security forces and firefighters, as well as teachers. The AD leader promised “less taxes on families and youth”, as well as cuts to the IRS at all levels except the last. “We want to make sure we actually have a middle class,” he said. In health, the coalition wants to introduce an emergency program “to save social networks”, a family doctor for all Portuguese by 2025 and automatic surgical screening. “In recent years, the only government that has cut pensions has been that of the Social Democratic Party,” the Social Democratic president later said, promising to raise pensions in accordance with the law and “expecting more serious updates.” Young people will be exempt from IMT when buying their first home, and the government will help with the purchase through a “public guarantee to make financing viable”, he said. The coalition also wants to fight corruption by regulating lobbies.