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The prime minister does not understand how the left can stop the budget proposal that the government delivered to Parliament a week ago. In an interview with TVI (and TVI24), this Monday, António Costa says that he has “difficulty understanding how the left will have a global opposition to this Budget.” And promises: “I do not turn my back on the country at this time of crisis and I will do everything possible to save the country from any kind of crisis. ” As for the controversial application Stayaway Covid, he asked that the suspension of the proposal be debated next Friday.
Asked about request Using a cell phone to track the situation of the pandemic in the country, the prime minister guarantees that it is “safe” and that the Government asked this Monday to suspend the president of the Assembly of the Republic from the debate on the proposal to make downloading mandatory . “People understood the message very well and the number of people who adopted the application increased. And the number of codes that doctors have been issuing has also increased exponentially ”, Costa guaranteed on TVI, anticipating that for now the Government will only advance with the discussion that“ it is more consensual ”, the use of masks on public roads.
“There is a great consensus on the mask, we will resolve it now. On the other topic, it’s nice to have deeper discussion and it is good that the Portuguese continue to download the application, which is safe, “said Costa, who explained that he asked Parliament to” not agree “with the diploma scheduled for Friday of the Government’s proposal. Costa details that it is not a matter of withdrawing the proposal, but of resolving now the issue of masks until all “doubts” about the application are cleared up.
Already in the negotiations of the State Budget, which know another round of negotiations with PCP and BE on Tuesday, the Prime Minister realizes that the parties are still trying to introduce changes to the Government’s proposal, but not “a fundamental disagreement” . . That Costa said that “I would not understand”, as there are proposals in this SO that “appear in this version that correspond to many demands that have been made” by (until now) Government partners.
About him New bank, one of the points that generates the most friction with BE, once again guarantees that there is no loan from the State to the Resolution Fund.
And the accounts have already been made for the approval of the Budget: “The PS only has more than 22 deputies than the entire right combined.” By the way, he repeated an idea that he had already used over the weekend, putting all the pressure on the left by saying that “the EO only fails if the PCP and the BE add their votes to those of the right.” “The question for PCP and BE is whether they want to join the right wing or not “, challenged in this interview.
“The budget will only fail if BE and PCP add their votes to the right.” Costa tries to change course
“Nobody asks for a blank check,” guaranteed Costa, who also assured that “the proposal presented already reflects some of the fruits of the dialogue held.” “We are going to continue the talks, but this has a limit that is reasonable, which is when the total sum of expenses and income makes the OE impracticable “. But there is one thing he rejects right now: the political crisis. Without guaranteeing that it will not govern in twelfths, that is, in case of anticipating the Budget proposal.
In this regard, when questioned by TVI, António Costa only guaranteed: “I will not contribute to the political crisis and I will do everything in my power to have a good budget and so that we do not have the country ruled by mouthwash, in twelfths “.
Regarding the state of the pandemic, the prime minister said that applying the Easter rule to Christmas – restrictions on travel between municipalities – “would be brutal” for families. And advanced that the state of emergency “is not on the table”, but that everything depends on “a set of factors.” And here António Costa admitted that there will be “a greater number of cases per day than in April, but fortunately with many fewer hospitalized than at that time,” he hopes. And he assured that the beds in intensive care are “more than 500 reserved for Covid, which can grow up to 700 and even reach 900, here already sacrificing the programmed activity of other diseases.”
