The president of the IL assured this Thursday that his party will vote against the structural increase in pensions proposed by the PS and Chega, accusing the two parties of creating “future difficulties for the country.”
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a visit to the “Lisbon Games Week”, at the Lisbon International Fair, Rui Rocha assured that it is not a party position “against pensioners”, but that IL is opposes the structural increase in pensions, believing that these “They should go up because the country is growing economically.”
“The focus must be on economic growth, so that the pension formula reproduces that economic growth and not on additional structural increases, beyond what is provided for in the law, which then force the country to increase its spending. Therefore, “I think it is a bad decision by the PS and it is a bad decision by Chega to make it viable.”said.
Rui Rocha added that the two parties are “once again together creating future difficulties for the country and not solving the problem of low pensions in the desirable way”, that is, “increasing economic growth and reducing taxes.” Chega announced this Wednesday that he will abstain from voting on the PS proposal to increase pensions by 1.25 percentage points, in addition to the update provided for in the law, allowing its approval if the left-wing parties vote in favor.
This morning, the PCP already guaranteed that it will not make any extraordinary increase in pensions unfeasible, but challenged the PS to clarify whether it will also follow the communists’ proposal that proposes a 5% increase.
In what was a visit to an event focused on video games, the IL leader also highlighted the party’s proposals in sense of regulating and recognizing “electronic games” in Portugal.
“It is a growing industry, for example, game development, game application development, the development of the entire technological area, that can also use this area as evidence to then develop its own solutions for everyone’s lives,” he argued.
Source: Observadora
