The Liberal Initiative was assumed today as the only “reliable” alternative that wants serious changes for the country and sent its position on the State Budget for 2025 on Thursday.
In Coimbra, at the beginning of the party’s National Council, the leader, Rui Rocha, defended that the liberals are, in the current political moment, the “only alternative based on trust, seriousness and rigor of the proposal” for Portugal. “This responsibility of ours is part of the path we have taken so far. It is no coincidence that at the PSD congress, which is being held this weekend, there is not a single idea for the country,” he highlighted.
For the president of IL, the congress of social democrats has discussed differences with the previous socialist government, when “there is no political or vision divergence” and the differences are that “some did little and others did a lot.”
The leader of the liberals accused the PSD/CDS Government of not having “the reformist drive that the country needs” and of increasing the number of public servants, commissions and bodies, task-forces, observatories and mission teams and current expenses.
Underlining that the differences between the current Government and the previous one are of execution and not of vision or policy, Rui Rocha assumed that the IL is the “most intense, most serious, most credible and systematic opposition to the wrong path” of the Luís Montenegro executive. .
The party leader announced that the party will take and announce the position on the direction of the State Budget vote for 2025 next Thursday, after listening to the Executive Committee, the National Council and the deputies of the parliamentary group, which will happen day .
“This position, with the arguments that we are going to discuss here, must be absolutely consistent with two essential issues: coherence with the entire path traveled and, above all, with IL’s opportunity to assert itself as the only party with a transformative vision of the country,” he highlighted.
However, in his speech, Rui Rocha stated that the State Budget proposal “does not cover or fulfill the change project that the country needs.”
At today’s meeting of the IL, the discussion of the State Budget for 2025 and the next local elections will be on the table.
Source: Observadora
