Former PSD President Manuela Ferreira Leite this Friday accused the PS of destroying the welfare state with its management, of wasting PDP funds and raising doubts about public accounts in the future.
“They have balanced budgets, and that’s true. But this is also true of means that are not repeated. Therefore, the consolidation and future of these so-proclaimed achievements in financial terms give me some doubts,” said Manuela Ferreira Leite, who was speaking at the Democratic Alliance (AD) luncheon in Estufa Fria in Lisbon, dedicated to International Women’s Day.
In this PSD/SDS-PP/PPM coalition initiative, the former Minister of Finance and Education described the current situation in the country as one of “serious and deep impoverishment” resulting from “wrong policies and even more wrong measures” taken by the PS. , which he summed up as: “They take money out of our pockets through taxes and then give it to us through alms.”
From the women’s point of view, Manuela Ferreira Leite emphasized that teachers have health and education, uncertainty regarding the place “where their children will be born”, regarding “the day they go to school” and “which classes they do not attend”. “
“It is almost extraordinary that it was the hands of the Socialist Party that put an end to the welfare state – something that the SDP has always had in its program,” he added.
According to the economist, the PS, which has ruled for the past eight years, “still had two gains” or “two blessings that fell from the sky”: the Covid-19 pandemic and inflation.
“Covid for this government was a blessing, it was an excuse to do nothing, it was an opportunity to help those who really needed support at this time – and that any government would certainly do this, an SDP government would do it too.” So,” he asserted.
Covid-19 gave the PS in government “the opportunity to get such a huge amount of resources from the European Union”, Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) funds, “and which it has wasted rather than investing in future change”. in the country, and often pay for the benefits that it distributes, so that people are associated with the government,” he accused.
According to Manuela Ferreira Leite, “inflation was another blessing that fell upon them” because “not only was it an excuse for several things that had nothing to do with inflation, but they also opened their treasury and everything was needed , is the receipt of money.” V” .
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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