Prime Minister Luis Montenegro stressed this Sunday the government’s commitment to combating bureaucracy, arguing that processes need to be speeded up in order to make decisions faster.
In Esposenda, during the groundbreaking ceremony for the future city park, Montenegro said the way forward was to trust each other more and “severely punish” anyone who is unworthy of that trust.
“We will have to trust each other more, and we will also have to hold each other more accountable when we trust (…). We must control ourselves and severely punish those who do not trust.” We don’t deserve our trust. This is the principle and this is how we will implement it in the near future,” he said.
Portugal’s bureaucracy has “inexplicably grown a lot” in recent years, the prime minister said.
“In the digital age, we have managed to complicate things and we will have to make a number of changes in this area,” he reiterated, promising government action in the near future.
He said, for example, that the government has already announced a competition to strengthen inspection teams by 60% using public funds.
“We will have more checks, but at the same time we will significantly ease the bureaucratic burden. Therefore, there will be less bureaucracy, but there will be more checks. If there are more checks, there will be more responsibility.” “We will try to resolve it quickly,” he said.
According to Montenegro, Portugal makes decisions very slowly” and loses “many projects due to a lack of decision-making ability.”
The Prime Minister spoke after listening to Esposende Mayor Benyamim Pereira complain about the bureaucracy he had to overcome in the process of building the city park.
Montenegro needs such projects.
“Our biggest challenge is to ensure well-being because if we do not ensure well-being, we will continue to see our youth going abroad,” he warned.
He said that the current government has a “program to transform the country” and that everyone needs to focus on that program “and not on fringe programs that attract the attention of a few” that have a “very strong influence on the media, but not on concrete lives of people.”
Noting that he doesn’t particularly like groundbreaking ceremonies, Montenegro said he would only do so when “reproductive projects” that bring wealth and prosperity are at stake.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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