PCP demands response from government on IRC and says PS shows ‘heaviness of conscience’

The PKP secretary general insisted that the government clarify the amount that will be transferred to companies taking into account the reduction in IRC and surcharge, demanding an answer to this question in parliament this Wednesday.

Paulo Raimundo, who spoke to reporters at the end of a meeting with the CGTP at the PCP national headquarters in Lisbon, was asked about a video in which PS Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos asks where he will cut the PSD/chief. The CDS-PP faces an estimated “€1.350 million hole in the government’s accounts” as a result of the downward revision of the budget surplus envisaged in the Democratic Alliance’s election program.

“I have no comment about the specific video. This is a burden on my conscience. We must also proceed from the fact that there is a lot of weight here, a lot of responsibility on the part of the previous government, a lot of responsibility on the part of some of those who participated and were ministers, including in previous governments, in the options that he made. So I think this is more to divert attention from the fundamental issue,” responded Paulo Raimundo.

For PKP, the “fundamental question” that comes up this Wednesday, “the question that needs to be answered is what is the government’s calculation as to what will actually be transferred from the pockets of all of us to the pockets of the big companies due to the IRC cut and reducing allowances and other instruments that the government is developing,” he said.

“In fact of the matter. The rest of you, look, let’s have fun, make a video here, a statement here, tik tok next and let’s have fun, he thought.

The Secretary General of the PKP wants to answer the previously announced question this Wednesday during an urgent debate in the Assembly of the Republic: “The Government will have to answer concretely.”

“I have no doubt that the minister who will be present will have to answer the questions that will be asked. And we even give priority to the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, who, I think, is the one who will participate in the debate: We have already stated the question that we will ask, and therefore the Minister has time,” he added.

Regarding the promise to cut the IRS, which in the end will amount to only about 200 million euros, Paulo Raimundo reiterated that “this is a fraud, this is a mistake” on the part of the government. In his opinion, “all these conversations around the supposed tax burden have always had one goal: to reduce taxes for economic groups, to reduce taxes for large capital.”

“These reports never fail,” he noted.

Asked about the case of former PSD MP Patricia Dantas, who decided not to take on the role of deputy of the Ministry of Finance following news of the court case in which she is accused, the PKP secretary general replied that he did not want to “pay too much attention to this issue”, but believed that “he would have been better advised if the step towards this appointment had not been taken.”

Regarding the meeting with the CGTP, Paulo Raimundo said that there was “great harmony in the analysis” of the current situation and regarding the need for “the government’s response to the promises it has made to the various professional sectors: teachers, doctors, nurses.” , security forces specialists, justice specialists.”

The PKP supports “a general and significant increase in wages as well as in the national minimum wage” and to this end, at the beginning of this legislative assembly, introduced a draft resolution recommending that the government increase the national minimum wage to €1,000. he emphasized.

“We are in a situation where this system is more favorable to the interests of economic groups and all those who want to continue to attack wages, continue to encourage instability, who want to continue to deregulate working hours, this is true. But this is also true. It is no less true that there is a lot of power, a lot of struggle, a lot of resistance and there is the ability to stop these goals,” said Paulo Raimundo.