The general secretary of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, challenged the Government and the PSD to say whether they will approve the socialist proposal to increase pensions for retirees, reaffirming, however, that The approval of the Budget is not at risk.
“What I hope is that the PSD and the Government will quickly say whether or not they support the PS’s proposal to increase the pensions of our retirees,” said Pedro Nuno Santos, at the entrance to the XX congress of the socialist union CGTP-IN. movement, in Aveiro.
Asked about the PS’s voting direction regarding the Budget proposal, the general secretary of the socialists stated that the only question that matters, at this moment, is knowing what the PSD and the Government will do with the PS’s proposal to increase the retiree pensions.
Pedro Nuno Santos, however, made it clear that the viability of the State Budget is not at stake regardless of the decision of the PSD and the Government, ensuring that this issue has been overcome and that the PS has already defined its voting direction.
“We will not blackmail any political party or the Government. What we hope, obviously, is that the Government and the PSD support the increase in pensions, because if they were willing to reduce the IRC by two percentage points and therefore lose 600 million euros in tax revenue, I hope they have less than 300 millions. to increase the pensions of our retirees,” he stated.
Pedro Nuno Santos also mentioned that pensioners earn little, arguing that there is an obligation to increase pensions and said that he hopes that when the specialty votes on increasing pensions for retirees, “the PSD will not fail the country, it will not It will fail our retirees.” are missing.”
The leader of the socialists also criticized the Government, accusing the executive led by Luís Montenegro of irresponsibility, for being focused on the political game, instead of solving the problems of the Portuguese.
“We have irresponsible and incompetent people governing the country and instead of solving the problems we have, they focus on political games, on petty politics,” said Pedro Nuno Santos, adding that the PS, on the contrary, focuses on solving the problems. problems of the Portuguese.
Source: Observadora
