Mariana Mortagua, coordinator of the Bloc de Esquerda, closed the televised debate this Sunday on CNN in a final confrontation with PAN representative Inés Souza Real.
For both countries, the energy transition is a priority topic as they agree to undo the simplex environmental and urban planning. Mariana Mortagua said PIN projects must be stopped to “protect the population” and for the country to “specialize in decentralized solar energy production.” Ines Souza Real confirmed PAN’s desire to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. “We started decarbonization by giving free travel to 23-year-olds,” a measure they intend to extend to the entire population.
Regarding the wage review, the Left Bloc defends increases in line with inflation and that “the minimum wage proposal does not solve the problem of average wages. Portugal is a very unequal country and inequality is a drag on the economy. It is necessary to turn a salary of one thousand euros into two or three thousand.”
PAN has assured that in the next legislature it will strive to ensure that the wage review is in line with the European average.
Marina Mortagua criticized PAN’s proposed IRC reduction to 17% and IMT reduction. “I’m not telling people that cutting IMT will lead to lower house prices. “I’m not trying to present fiscal equity as a silver bullet for lowering house prices.”
The BE coordinator said it was difficult to understand how the PAN supported “the worst government that the PSD can present, namely the government of Madeira.”
The blocker insisted that PAN supports the Madeira government, which is characterized by “speculation, construction, environmental destruction and real estate projects that do not make any sense, like Dubai, Madeira.” [empreendimento habitacional de luxo que vai nascer na zona oeste do Funchal]”.
Besides Madeira, Mariana Mortagua also criticized PAN for making the Azores 2023 budget viable, along with Chega and PPM.
The 2023 budget of the Azores was approved on November 24, 2022, in a final global vote, with 30 votes in favor of PSD, CDS-PP, PPM, IL, Chega, independent MP (formerly Chega) and PAN and 27 against, from PS and BE.
“There is neither coherence nor the possibility of trust on the part of the people in the PAP, which supports both one government and another, as well as the governments of the worst right-wing level that we have,” he emphasized.
In response, PAN spokesperson Inés Souza Real justified this support by saying that the goal of all democratic political forces should be to stop the far right from coming to power.
“This was an exercise in which PAN demonstrated that the population should not be held hostage either by an absolute majority or by the fear of voting due to the possible rise of the far right,” he stressed.
Ines Sousa Real emphasized that PAN was the opposition party that approved most of the measures, unlike BE, which opened the door to the current political instability when it did not allow the discussion of the state budget in the Assembly of the Republic in 2021. .
Author: morning Post This Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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