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João Cotrim de Figueiredo, president of the Liberal Initiative, was the first to be heard this Tuesday by the President of the Republic and left the meeting with certainty: Marcelo will renew the state of emergency, and there is an agreement with the Government to make it so. . . But one question remains: what measures will take effect in the next period of state of emergency? Cotrim de Figueiredo assures that he would be “surprised” to see a renewal of the restrictive measures for the weekend, which were in force this weekend and will remain the next, and which, in his opinion, only increase the crowds during the morning. and they do more harm to the catering, hospitality and retail businesses than they help to flatten the pandemic curve. André Ventura is also against these “absurd restrictions”, advanced a demand to eliminate them, and will change the vote in the renewal of the state of emergency because he feels “disappointed” by the Government: now, he is voting against.
“It was clear that the President of the Republic wants a renewal of the state of emergency, and that there will be a consonance of that position with the government,” said the only Liberal Initiative deputy, leaving another clue about the controversial curfew measure. from 1pm on weekends. “I would be very surprised if these measures [de fim de semana] allowed in the next presidential decree of the state of emergency “he said, arguing that there is no evidence that the impact of this measure on health is more beneficial than the negative impact on the economy. Asked if instead of the restriction of closing at 1 pm on the weekend, there could be total confinement, Cotrim de Figueiredo said this would be “even worse.” And he did not anticipate more, complaining about the lack of data.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the host of the festivities in Belém, to hear them not only about the probable renewal of the state of emergency for another 15 days but also about the State Budget, which begins to be voted on in the specialty this Friday.
João Cotrim Figueiredo, from the Liberal Initiative, was the first to meet with the head of state. Upon his departure, Cotrim de Figueiredo began by criticizing the “serious” measures of restoration, accommodation and commerce, saying that the real effectiveness of these measures in fighting the pandemic has not been proven. “It is this balance that is not being achieved,” said the deputy, noting that the closing of the weekend from 1:00 p.m. causes crowds of people in the morning and “harms thousands of businesses throughout this country “. In other words, it is not a balanced measure, he said.
“We are especially concerned and we want those affected by these measures to be reflected in the State Budgets. For this reason, we proposed lowering the VAT on all food and beverage services to 6%, we proposed the early refund of the IRC and the upward revision of the minimum stock in the IRS, so that the poorest of the poorest are exempt from the IRS. in this difficult stage, ”he also told reporters, listing some of the amendment proposals submitted by the party to the State Budget.
After Cotrim de Figueiredo, André Ventura was the second to be heard in Belém. The Chega deputy, who abstained in the last request for a state of emergency to Parliament, has now announced that he will vote against. “It has nothing to do with the president’s own decree, but with the fact that we feel cheated and cheated after meeting with the government. We are not going to make the next state of emergency possible because of the absurd restrictions that the government has decided to impose in the context of the state of emergency and that are creating great chaos throughout the country, “Ventura told reporters at the end of the meeting.
They will no longer have Chega for this, “said André Ventura, highlighting that the government created confusion with the measures and even changed them when they were already being implemented.
In this context, the only deputy of Chega also said that the party was taken to court with an action for the immediate lifting of hours restrictions in stores and restaurants on weekends. “We hope that the courts can look at these restrictions and analyze their insufficiency in relation to the proposed objectives to combat the pandemic. We are destroying the economic fabric and we are not helping to contain the pandemic, “he said.
Ventura insists that, by abstaining from voting on the state of emergency last week, he shows that Chega agrees that there is a legal hat to take certain measures such as temperature measurement, for example. What he does not understand is that everything closes from 1 in the afternoon until the weekend, making people “all gather at the same time in certain spaces.” “It will not be worth the effort if we are killing the economy and companies that are dying,” he said, recalling: “Our economy is not the German economy,” he says.
For Ventura, Marcelo is the only one who “can call the attention of the Government” so that the measures that the Government can take under the state of emergency are “adequate and proportional”, since the Government’s measures are not voted on. Parliament. “They surprised us at midnight on Saturday with absurd measures of which they did not warn us when we approved the state of emergency,” he said.
