Two debates, the same movie. Socialists and Social Democrats spent two days in a row presenting their respective social emergency packages, but ended up discussing who was more Troikaist than the Troika -always with the issue of pensions as a backdrop- with the rest of the parties, left and right. , taking advantage of the opportunity to distribute the evil between the PS and PSD peoples.
“IT IS unfortunate We spent that part of the afternoon discussing whether it was the fault of José Sócrates or Passos Coelho and that PS and PSD preferred to give a history lesson instead of discussing measures for the future”, he continued. Andre Ventura, from Chega, on the first day of parliamentary debate. He wasn’t far away.
with the government (unanimously) accused of preparing a million dollar cut in the pension system, the socialists took to Parliament the strategy that they have been rehearsing outside of it and recovered the ghost of the troika, the pension cut and the unsuccessful modifications of the Single Security Tax, proposed nine years ago. A flight forward that led the Social Democrats to press, once again, the “José Sócrates” and “PEC IV” buttons.
On Thursday, in the middle of a parliamentary debate, and in response to socialist provocations, Joaquin Miranda Sarmentoparliamentary leader of the PSD, even requested the distribution of the State Budget for 2011, signed by the then socialist government, and the pages of the memorandum of understanding to prove for the umpteenth time the (true) thesis that it was the PS that requested the intervention of the troika.
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Source: Observadora
