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The PSD parliamentary group meets today in one-day parliamentary days, in the Assembly of the Republic, which will culminate in the announcement of the party’s vote on the State Budget proposal for 2021.
Since Rui Rio is president of the PSD, the party has always voted against the State Budgets of the Governments led by António Costa (for 2019 and 2020) and abstained in the Supplementary Budget this year, considering that the document only It intended to respond to the additional needs of the country in the face of the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic.
Regarding the Budget for 2021, Rio has said that the possibility that the party agrees with a document that the government is negotiating on the left is “extremely low” and, more recently, took advantage of an interview with the Prime Minister, António Costa, to He expressed his rejection of any pressure on the Social Democrats to make the document feasible, even without guaranteed approval.
“The leader of the PS, in this case also Prime Minister, was very clear, he could not have been clearer, when he said that the day he needed the PSD to approve the State Budgets, his Government no longer made sense,” he said. Rui Rio, at the end of September.
Even after the President of the Republic affirmed that, if it is not possible to approve the State Budget by the left, then it must be “the opposition that intends to lead the Government” to make it viable, as it did when he led the PSD, Rui Rio. Refused to be the recipient of the words of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
“If the President of the Republic said that there should be a State Budget and there should not be a crisis, the pressure is not on me, it is on the solution that is found: PCP, BE, PS or PS with only one (…) PSD, right now, no matter what you want, you are, so to speak, on the bench waiting for the game to start, ”said Rui Rio, on the same occasion.
Even after the delivery of the document to the Assembly in the Republic, on October 12, the first and only official reaction of the PSD to the Government’s proposal was very restrained, with the deputy of the bench Afonso Oliveira saying that this was the “ time to study ”, referring the party’s vote to today’s parliamentary days.
“But it is not limited to voting, yes, voting no or abstaining. Vote yes, vote no or abstain for what reasons: this is what deserves that the Budget be duly studied to adequately support our position, ”Rui Rio explained later.
The announcement will be made at the end of the day, the president of the PSD, after a panel dedicated to the proposed State Budget law for 2021, which will include the interventions of the economist João Duque and the lawyer and tax inspector João Silva Lopes , and a debate with deputies.
Before, in the morning, the parliamentary sessions will have a panel on Portugal’s response to the health crisis, both to the pandemic and to non-covid patients, with the participation of the president of the National Association of Public Health Doctors, Ricardo Mexia, from the doctor and the former Undersecretary of State of the Minister of Health Fernando Leal da Costa and Dr. Isabel Santos.
The PSD changed the model of the days initially foreseen due to the worsening of the covid-19 pandemic and the increase in the country’s alert level for calamity.
The initial model foresaw days of two days, with deputies decentralized by constituencies on the first day and the second concentrated in a hotel in Vimeiro, Lourinhã municipality (Lisbon).
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