Follow our State Budget live blog here
The Liberal Initiative considered this Thursday that the decision announced this Thursday by the PS to make the Budget proposal for 2025 viable reveals fragility, defeat and giving in to internal pressures by the socialist leadership of Pedro Nuno Santos.
This position was conveyed by the president of the Liberal Initiative (IL), Rui Rocha, in parliament, shortly after the general secretary of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, announced that his party will make the Government’s Budget proposal possible by abstaining. 2025.
Rui Rocha accused Pedro Nuño Santos of having “plunged the country into a drama” for months to now announce a decision on the Budget from which “there was no possible escape”.
“From the PS point of view, this was a budget proposal that could not be rejected. From the country’s point of view, this proposal negotiated with the PS is a bad Budget“He stated, adding that IL will decide this Sunday the direction of its vote in light of the executive diploma.
“I will consult the National Council of IL next Sunday, I will meet with the Parliamentary Group of IL and, contrary to what happens in the PS, we do not inform a date and then, under internal pressure, we communicate the position earlier than expected” said Rui Rocha.
In front of the journalists, the The leader of the IL accused Pedro Nuño Santos of having plunged the country “for months into a doubt, to which the general secretary of the PS now comes to the conclusion that it made no sense.”.
“The country experienced a drama without Pedro Nuno Santos being able to present any justification, because for the PS it is clear that it is a Budget from which Pedro Nuno Santos had no escape. “He has been rehearsing an escape all this time to now reach this conclusion, probably defeated internally by the pressure of the people and figures of the PS to make it viable,” he said.
In this context, Rui Rocha concluded that we are facing “an obvious defeat of what Pedro Nuno Santos intended.”
“This anticipation of revealing the position of the PS actually represents an enormous weakness of Pedro Nuno Santos. The arguments you have now used, namely The argument that the country had elections six or seven months ago, if true, are exactly the same arguments that were valid five or six months ago.”, noticed.
For the president of IL, the general secretary of PD “suffered a great defeat”.
“He was always looking for an excuse not to make this Budget viable”he added.
IL maintains that “a bad budget is worse for the country than having no budget”
Source: Observadora
