OE 2022. Costa recognizes Portugal’s military expenditures but promises to increase them
“We are currently, according to the NATO report, at 1.55% and we have made the commitment, if we managed to mobilize European funds, we would reach 1.89% by 2024, and we have been following this trajectory after year”.
The prime minister also highlighted the defense that “with the exception of Greece, France and most European Union countries to be protected, Portugal is also more in terms of percentage of its GDP”.
The Prime Minister said today in the Assembly of the Republic that “the Portuguese have absolutely unequivocally approved the State Budget that this Assembly [da República]in its previous composition, it had failed”.
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The Prime Minister said today in the Assembly of the Republic that “the Portuguese have absolutely unequivocally approved the State Budget that this Assembly [da República]in its previous composition, it had failed”.
António Costau continued, citing the Lusa agency, secondly declaring: “Such was the case of the Portuguese clearly declaring that we affirmed and reaffirmed, measure the affirmative after the, which almost suggest that this proposal was referenced and the second answer clearly clarifying”.
The proposal still responds “to the needs of the country” and added: “Yes, it is the budget that has as models.
Costa promises electricity price reduction
In response from the PSD on the consequences of inflation, António Costa also said that in July “there will be a high probability” of a reduction in the price of electricity. According to the prime minister, this is an “imported inflation” and has “conjunctural causes”, with the Government acting on price, fuel and energy controls.
“We managed to increase the price of the economy, since there is no more energy since January – which explains our inflation being one of the highest in the euro zone – as more energy is what the sector regulator will increase more from January – the which increases the increase in the sector with greater economy. There is a high probability of a further reduction in the price of electricity”, he also stated.
“We are acting on inflation where it is necessary to act, that we seek prices in a way that there is no maintenance of the efficiency standards of families and the competitiveness of companies”, he defended.
Still António António the new decrease in the Tax on Petroleum Products (ISP)% of gas scheduled for Monday, the fair will allow a second tax burden on gasoline in the 20th increase in the price of the 62% increase in gasoline, 62% of the increase in the coast, of the price 62% of the increase in gasoline.
The energy sector leader of the economic cycle also defends the initiative’s prices inflating economic dynamics, companies and accelerating the energy transition, protecting the initiative’s steps and the economic.
Hence, “already on Monday, the new decrease in the ISP will increase the tax burden by 20 cents per litre, which will reduce 6% of the increase in the price of gasoline and 42% of the price of gas. less one year.
Between taxes and subsidies, according to António Costa, the Budget proposal “provides for a decrease of more than 1300 million euros in support to companies and families”.
“It is, therefore, a concrete budget, turned to the real country; a budget that allows us without facilitating the course we have traced, adjusting to a new new one, deviates us from the great national designs”, he cashed.
PSD compares Costa to Socrates
But the PSD was not satisfied with Costa’s explanations and parliamentary response, with the prime minister “honoring his word” on the increase in income, and having suggested that, if that did not happen, António Costa’s Dirão the same Portuguese that he said of José Sócrates.
Last week, the prime minister’s edition of Mário’s biography published a sentence by the secretary general of the PS concerning José Sócrates: “I conclude that he, in fact, cheated- not [ao PS]”.
Today, in his first parliamentary clash with António Costa, Paulo Mota Pinto alluded to the episode, without citing the verb or name of José Sócrates, but he will not challenge the prime minister to say whether or not the Portuguese will lose their purchasing power due to to inflation.
“Will you honor your word in real terms or it was all a sham and the Portuguese will one day have to come to the same conclusion – although, of course, only in plan – that the political prime minister recently wanted to make public about the socialist prime minister of whom he was minister?” he asked.
António Costa also did not refer to José Sócrates e Rei that the Government will maintain the principle of annual updating that it reinstated in 2019: “Replace ater measured the purchasing power selected in the previous year”.
“It’s the rule we keep this year and we’ll go in the next contact with the new update rule.
In his response, the prime minister defended that “this State Budget does not result in greater austerity”.
BE and PCP voter against in general
he could still argue in the war afterwards, stating: “I still see the Government’s proposal, if even more unacceptable for not defending families from the loss of purchase income and the impoverishment that the increase in the cost of living is the cause”.
For its part, the PCP will also vote against the proposal in general. A source from the communist parliamentary group told Lusa that the party is against, less than 30 minutes before the start of the discussion in the Assembly of the Republic of the proposal presented by the socialist executive.
On April 13, the communist parliamentary leader, Paula Santos, had stated that the proposal presented by the Minister of Finance, Fernando Medina, was “more inadequate” than the one that the Government had five months ago and that it would “deepen bottlenecks” to the Portuguese life.
“The budget proposal is, the proposal that was rejected in October 2021 and continues to propose the set of solutions why the PC was right. A proposal that was already inadequate for five months. in view of the degradation of the national and international situation “, he maintained.
(w/Lusa)