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“Our priority (of the Government) is not to prohibit layoffs, it is to support the maintenance of employment,” explained the head of the Government in the interview with the newspaper.
The Prime Minister explained that the “Excessive rigidity can mean the elimination of many more jobs than will be sacrificed to keep the business running.”.
In the case of companies, Costa continues, it is not possible to “kill sick people with a cure” and the “reasonable thing” – a word that the leader of the socialist executive uses a lot during the interview – is “not allowing companies to abuse “the economic crisis derived from the pandemic” to make layoffs they would not otherwise do”.
However, it is necessary to “let the automatic stabilizers of the economy work with control.”Stop funding the Resolution Fund
António Costa was also adamant about funding the Resolution Fund with taxpayer money next year.
“The question is whether there is taxpayer money to fund FdR: there is no”Stressed the Prime Minister.
When asked why there was no agreement between the Government and BE on this matter, Costa replied that this question should be asked of the blockers, since the Government has done “what was reasonable”.
“Unfortunately, some countries have banks that need support mechanisms in the FdR, as is the case of Novo Banco. Then there is a contract that like any other must be fulfilled“He stressed, adding that what is expected” of a State is to fulfill and honor its obligations. “
The secretary general of the PS also added that “It is reasonable” to say that, “in this context, this year the State will not finance” the Resolution Fund and that it “paid attention” to the Left Bloc and “to respond to a position” of the party that the Government adopted “this position”.
“If someone is reasonably at a negotiating table, the statement that we prevent the state from financing the FdR is a political statement and a very relevant political gain,” he said.Caution in budget negotiations
Regarding negotiations with political partners, the Prime Minister said that the government’s position in the last five years was “not to do them in the public square.”
“I would not like to continue negotiations with BE through the Public channel“Added Costa, clarifying that the executive continues to make an” effort to get closer “and until there is a final global vote on the proposed State Budget for 2021 (OE2021) there is” time to try to overcome the differences. ”
Still, “the limit is common sense and reasonableness”.
Asked if the difficulty in approving the budget for next year is a sign that the Government is politically exhausted, Costa rejected this hypothesis and considered that “There is a big difference between what the political-media dance is and what the will and popular sentiment really is”.
The head of government exemplified this idea with the surveys, which show that “there is no such desire for change, nor that wear and tear.”
António Costa also said that he has not yet found “someone who could see” reasons for BE not making the OE2021 proposal viable.
By joining the honor committee of the current president of Sport Lisboa e Benfica and re-running for office, Luís Filipe Vieira, from whom Costa was excluded, however, by Vieira, the Prime Minister said, from the point of view of his conscience: “I should not refuse, at that time and under that circumstance.”
The Covid Stayaway app is a must
Regarding the evolution of the pandemic in the country, the mandatory application for the Stayaway Covid smartphone does not please the socialist, however, Costa considers it a necessity.
“If you ask me if it is a measure that I like? No, I don’t like the measure. And the idea of mandatory application? No, I don’t like the measure either. If at this moment I think it is necessary? I think so“, He is stressed.
With the arrival of Christmas, at a time when the number of cases has already exceeded two thousand new infections a day on several occasions, Costa did not rule out the possibility of, as happened at Easter, prohibiting people from the “municipality “That” be to go ashore.
The executive leader also stated that the way in which he replaced the advisory judge Vitor Caldeira could not have been “erratic”, however, “it was certainly wrong because it was not well communicated.”
