Chegi’s leader considered this Thursday that the proposed state budget for 2023 is characterized by “illusion, deceit and lies” and called Finance Minister Fernando Medina “the kingdom’s captor general”.
“There are three words in this budget: illusion, deceit and lies. This is what characterizes this socialist budget,” Andre Ventura said at the end of the discussion of the state budget for next year in Parliament.
President Chega believed that “this government barricaded itself with a bad budget for the country, barricaded itself with the absolute majority it gained in January, and barricaded itself because it does not want and will not listen to any other Portuguese, which is not in accordance with the will of the PS.”
Pointing out that “for several centuries there has been a figure in Portugal who has been the Inquisitor General”, someone who “controls behavior, accounts and various gestures”, Ventura said that there is currently a “general captor of the kingdom”. “Order of Antonio Costa”.
“The general captor is Fernando Medina, who presents to the Portuguese a budget for expansion, growth and which is not austerity, but he did not say the most important thing, that 15% of the service budget is taken from the very beginning, that 2.5% of each of the expenditure items is also limited from the outset that any service contract that the administration wants to enter into is limited and subject to the same rules that there are millions of centralized appropriations that depend on the permission of the Minister of Finance,” he said.
André Ventura criticized that “this is a budget of fraud and illusion”, pointing out that “for the first time since 2013, those on the minimum wage will lose purchasing power.”
“This is the budget of TAP, Novo Banco, EDP, but this is not the budget of the poorest and most disadvantaged,” he criticized.