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The Council of Ministers approved this Sunday the proposal for the State Budget for 2021 (OE2021) and the bill of Great Options, which will be delivered to the Assembly of the Republic this Monday.
“The Council of Ministers approved today, electronically, the Draft Law on State Budgets for 2021 and the Draft Law on Great Options, which had been generally approved in the Council of Ministers on October 8,” he announced the Government in a statement released this Sunday.
On Thursday, in a long meeting that ran from 9:30 am to around 8:00 pm, the Council of Ministers had already approved the OE proposal “in general”, but there were still “some issues to be closed” He explained that day to the Lusa agency. official government source.
The President of the Government, António Costa, considered, on Saturday, that “the conditions are created” for an agreement with the Bloco de Esquerda and the PCP to approve the document. “As for the essentials, I do not see how there can be no agreement with BE and the PCP,” said the CEO, quoted by the Lusa agency, despite admitting that there were “some issues” in which there is still no agreement to ” 100% ”. And those negotiations continued.
The head of the Portuguese Government also confirmed the news reported by the newspaper “Expresso” on Saturday “, stating that one of the measures contemplated in the OE proposal will be a reduction in the withholding rate at origin for all workers in 2021. in order to increase disposable income at the end of the month. On the other hand, the lowest pensions will have an “extraordinary increase” -although they have not advanced in more detail-, in a year in which the calculation formula established by law does not foresee any automatic annual update, due to the contraction of GDP and inflation.
The budget proposal will be voted on in general on October 28, and the final global vote on the document is scheduled for November 26.
(Updated at 4:28 pm)
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