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The PSD will vote against the proposed State Budget for 2021. Rui Rio took advantage of the end of the party’s parliamentary days to announce the vote of the Social Democrats, which he justified with the fact that the Prime Minister said that when he needed it to the PSD vote would mean that his role would have come to an end.
“If the budget is bad, if it does not fight unemployment, if it does not support companies and even makes it difficult, if it distributes what it has and what it does not have, if it does not give signals to the middle class, if it lacks transparency , if you announce an amending budget for having overestimated income, if nothing serves for the reform of the public administration to combat waste and inefficiency and if the vote of the PSD does not even serve to avoid a political crisis, then the PSD can only vote against because that is what is the only vote consistent with what we should do, “he said, receiving applause from the deputies.
After making several criticisms of the OE proposal, the Social Democratic leader also admitted the possibility of opting for abstention in the name of “the interests of the country”, because of “the pandemic”, because of the Portuguese presidency of the European Union and even because the “President of the Republic has diminished powers and cannot even dissolve Parliament.” But, according to António Costa, in an interview with Quick in August, which the government would end if it depended on the PSD to support itself, the PSD was “free” to vote against.
When analyzing the document, Rui Rio concluded that the Government “followed the opposite path” to that needed to face the crisis: it does not provide significant support to companies and even promises to increase the national minimum wage when entrepreneurs struggle to survive. It is, according to the leader of the PSD, a “mark of the PCP and the BE, who want to level it”, pointing out that the increase in the minimum wage has already been “supported” against the average wage.
Calling the EO a “pay-as-you-go” budget and to meet the “demands of the PCP and BE”, the PSD leader admitted that there are proposals that could deserve a vote in the air – such as the “increase in pensions, more public nurseries , cheaper passes and higher unemployment benefits ”, but it is not possible“ to agree with everyone at the same time. ”“ Because this increases the deficit and makes certain measures that prepare our future unfeasible, ”he justified.
Reiterating the position that the PSD would only propose a tax burden relief “to the extent possible”, Rui Rio accused the Government of “publicity craving” by selling the “illusion” that the IRS will go down in 2021: “It is It’s hard to say they lied but the way they said it makes you think there is a reduction in the IRS, there isn’t. “
The PSD’s path would be different and would imply “breaking the cycle of weak economic growth”, “strengthening the competitiveness of the economy and strengthening the middle class.”
