A new governance model for the future of Portugal – Observer
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Ambition and courage. Growth and vision of the future. Portugal needs a governance model that guarantees the country a horizon of economic progress and social well-being. A model that was born from an essential majority of a policy of ties and ideological prejudices – with the intention of implementing measures for the future of the Portuguese, which intends to be of hope for the next generations.
This project must guarantee a state apparatus that is less dependent on its relationship with parties, does not agree with the merits of public servants, and promotes their professional progression.
A strategy must contemplate an effective reform of public administration, making it less cumbersome and bureaucratic, simplifying administrative procedures, addressing levels of administration that are often useless and absolutely redundant – and focusing on the qualification and training of officials and employees.
A program that responds to the need to modernize a bureaucratized justice system in Portugal, which makes it difficult – and in some circumstances even prevents – the realization of justice. Speed and simplification in the procedural process, digitization and updating of services are essential conditions for the country of an efficient model where citizens feel that the justice system works in a timely and predictable way.
It is an incentive to urgent dynamism that values ascension through merit, that boosts social concertation and stimulates a broad understanding between companies and systems of urgent work systems, an innovative work organization model, capable of managing from work relations to the demands of an increasingly globalized and competitive economy.
In short, an ambitious program is needed that guarantees fair remuneration for work, without, thereby, jeopardizing the economic and financial of organizations. When the policy materializes in the successive increase of remunerations through administrative means, without taking care to assess an economic impact that the same on the financial health of thousands of small and medium-sized companies, this can only be dealt with as a result of ignorance about the difficulties of treasury of the Portuguese business fabric. Companies can only distribute what they can generate.
It is, therefore, time to break with an exclusively time-oriented policy, the only result of which is a more impoverished country, on its way to the tail of Europe.
The Portuguese yearn for a political alternative that triggers the debate about the country we intend to leave for future generations. Numerous pandemics in a geopolitical context, resulting from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, must be identified as solutions that reinforce the sustainability of the crisis and the well-being of the Portuguese during this period during the crisis. This is the issue that, during the current mandate, must summon both the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, the largest opposition party, to the debate table.