The direction of the vote of the PSD deputies of Madeira in the state budget for 2025 will be decided on Wednesday in the party’s regional political commission, the Madeiran social democratic leader and president of the Government of the archipelago stated this Tuesday.
“tomorrow it will be decided [quarta-feira]“Miguel Albuquerque told journalists on the sidelines of the opening of the exhibition “Private Investigations”, by the artist Teresa Brazão, at Quinta Magnólia, in Funchal.
According to the leader of the PSD/Madeira, Wednesday’s meeting of the regional political commission will serve to “inform the party leadership about the measures adopted in the budgetary framework of the Republic and provide information on how the negotiations have been carried out.” .
Still according to the government official, on Friday “the urgency of the situation regarding the extension of the regime of the Madeira International Business Center (CINM) was resolved”, which was discussed with the Minister of Finance, but “There are still other issues to be resolved”relative to the State Budget proposal for 2025 (OE2025) of the Government of the Republic, headed by the social democrat Luís Montenegro.
Miguel Albuquerque defended that the situation of the Madeira Free Trade Zone “must be detached from the Budget and State spending”considering that “any State with common sense should expand the regime, because it is a source of income for the region and is a center of investment and innovation.”
Because, he has argued, despite “all the misdeeds that were done to the Free Trade Zone, last year it gave 136 million euros” and allows almost five thousand “direct and indirect jobs”, in addition to “the Registry [Internacional] of Ships is already the third in Europe.”
At the time of the presentation of OE2025, on October 10, the president of the Regional Government described the proposal as “a bucket of cold water” and indicated that the voting orientation of the Madeiran PSD deputies would depend on what was enshrined.
The PSD/Madeira elected three deputies to the Assembly of the Republic, in a constituency with six representatives, the rest from the PS (two) and Chega (one).
On October 12, the island leader assured that Madeira would continue to press for its demands to be included in the State Budget for 2025 in the debate on the specialty.
According to the State Budget proposal, the Autonomous Region of Madeira will receive 279.8 million euros in 2025 under the Regional Finance Law, 25.1 million euros less than in 2024.
Of the 279.8 million euros planned for next year, 199,826,396 will be received under article 48 of the Finance Law of the Autonomous Communities (budget transfers) and 79,930,558 euros under article 49 (fund cohesion for the outermost regions).
Miguel Albuquerque also criticized that some of the region’s main demands were not included in the document, such as the extension of the International Business Center (Free Zone) regime, the principle of VAT capitation and the payment of the debt of the subsystems. of health. , valued at 60 million euros.
The OE2025 proposal does not yet have its general viability assured and the vote is scheduled for Thursday in parliament.
Whether the PSD/CDS-PP Government’s budget proposal is generally viable with the PS abstaining or, alternatively, with Chega’s favorable votes, it will be examined in detail in Parliament between November 22 and 29. The final global vote on the Budget is scheduled for November 29.
Source: Observadora
