BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua announced this Wednesday that her party will present a proposal to reject the government program, arguing that these measures transfer the wealth of those who work to large economic interests.
“Not only can we not follow this program, but we will present a proposal to reject a program that has a vision for the country that we cannot follow,” Mariana Mortagua said, speaking to reporters in the Assembly of the Republic.
The BE coordinator stated that it is “a right-wing agenda that wants to rule the few and wants to concentrate the country’s resources in the hands of a few.”
On March 13, the PKP announced that it would also submit a motion to reject the document, but it had a guaranteed advantage without the PS’s votes. BE did not specify how it would vote on the PCP proposal.
According to the bloc leader, the government program presented today by the executive director of the SDP/SDS “contrasts with the enormous imprecision and uncertainty in such important issues as salaries and careers, and the enormous precision in measures that are the program of the big bosses, the big companies.” , investment funds, financial elites.”
“What this document actually means is a brutal transfer of income, resources and money from those who work and those who live off their salaries to very specific sectors of society and to large companies,” he charged.
Mariana Mortagua cited the national minimum wage as an example, noting that the program aims to reach one thousand euros in 2028.
“Soon after, [o documento] says that the minimum wage will change depending on productivity and inflation, and therefore thousands of euros are nothing more than a goal and do not represent any commitment on the part of this government,” he criticized.
Regarding the reduction of the IRC to 15% recommended by the minority leader, Mortagua stressed that “there are no conditions” and that it will be the large companies that will stop paying this tax.
The bloc coordinator also cited the health sector as an example, saying that health centers “will now include private services” and that houses that “have so far been in the social sector will be transferred to the private sector.”
“Large investment groups that own and manage houses abroad will begin to enter Portugal with disastrous results, subsidizing all taxpayers’ money,” he said.
In the area of labor, the MP expressed regret that “probationary periods are no longer part of the general law and are becoming the subject of collective bargaining.”
“This program makes very clear choices about who it wants to protect: big bosses, big companies, big profits, very specific private interests, very specific interests of profiteering and labor exploitation in Portugal,” he said.
Mortagua was also asked about the inclusion of “more than 60 measures” of the opposition’s electoral programs in the government document announced today by Presidential Minister António Leitan Amaro.
“Frankly, the program does not include PAN measures because the program includes requiring children to play outdoors. And not because it says that there is a certain percentage of Agência Lusa that must be from the public sphere, which now includes BE or PS measures. “This is a right-wing program, this is a program modeled on the employer confederation program, it has all the measures proposed by the big bosses and the big companies,” he insisted.
The Government’s Democratic Alliance (AD) program was approved today by the Council of Ministers ahead of two days of debate in Parliament on Thursday and Friday.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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