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The Socialist Party (PS) revealed this Tuesday “absolute strangeness” with the proposal of the coordinator of the Left Bloc, Catarina Martins, so that, in the event that the State Budgets for 2021 (OE2021) become unviable in Parliament, the Socialist Executive presents another. The parliamentary leader of the PS, Ana Catarina Mendes, recalls that there is still a negotiation process underway and that the Government’s proposal already includes BE’s demands.
“It is strange that within a few hours of resuming this negotiation process, BE is able to invent at the last moment the need to seek a new Budget when it knows that it is an open Budget, susceptible to negotiation in the area of specialty” said Ana Catarina Mendes. , at a press conference, in the Assembly of the Republic, at a time when the impasse in the negotiations between the Government and the blockers persists.
According to Ana Catarina Mendes, BE’s claims “are enshrined” in OE2021. Among the proposals that were accepted by the Government, are the reinforcement of investment in the National Health Service (SNS), the creation of a “more solid and durable” service to respond to all those who have lost their jobs and income, and the guarantee that the Resolution Fund does not have public money, says the leader of the PS bench.
After Catarina Martins suggested, in an interview with “Observador” radio, that the Government present another Budget if there is no margin to make the current proposal viable, the president of the socialist parliamentary group considered the idea “unreal and impossible” and said that Among the PS deputies, the proposal caused “tremendous surprise”, taking into account that the negotiations are not yet closed.
“We arrived in time to return to the negotiating table of the left partners with the Government (…) From the moment the proposal is delivered to the Assembly of the Republic, it has a period of specialization and is still open to a series of negotiations. “He said, highlighting that the Prime Minister, António Costa, has already said that he is willing to seek solutions to” not turn his back on the country or add a political crisis to a pandemic, economic and social crisis. “
For the PS, it also accuses of “absolute strangeness” that BE considers weighing OE2021 when it comes to “a strong budget, with a very broad social character and that responds to the demands of what we are experiencing.” “None of us is unaware that the number of unemployed is increasing and that the number of sick and infected is increasing and that requires strengthening the SNS, supporting companies, families and workers,” he emphasized.
Ana Catarina Mendes also said that listening to Catarina Martins say, “with an even restless air”, that it is unthinkable that the country is governed in twelfths, “it is still strange, but also some satisfaction” because BE has “abandoned” the idea . Deputy José Manuel Pureza defended that “there would be no problem if there were budgetary governance in twelfths”, in case there is no agreement for viability.
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