Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa acknowledged that the measures to respond to inflation adopted by the Government to face the crisis are “few” and that they could be more “ambitious”, but considered that they are part of a “balanced solution”.

“If they ask me if I would like it to be more ambitious, I would, but in a few months it will be analyzed intensively. You know little, but doing everything that the Portuguese would need would have very high costs in terms of the Portuguese financial balance if this war continues,” he told reporters, outside the Palácio de Belém, on Monday, September 5, shortly after. measures to support the family were announced by António Costa.

The Government grants a subsidy of 125 euros to those who receive up to 2,700 euros and another 50 euros for each child

For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, he “feels” that he is more “ambitious”, but it is possible that the most radical decisions have a price to pay. “But then, the experience I have tells me that, in a few months, this is going to be carefully scrutinized, if not on the contrary: ‘How did they do that?'”

It is in this context that, before, the President of the Republic alludes to the socialist government of José Sócrates: many European countries said that “you had to spend”, but then asked: “But how did they spend so much?”.

The head of state stressed that this is the first support package for families – there will be another support package for companies and also the 2023 State Budget in which, he considers, “there will hardly be” measures for public service.

“PSD helped a lot, you can’t imagine how much it helped”

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa praised the role of the PSD, which on Friday, September 2, presented a set of seven major measures to face the economic crisis, thus paving the way for the solutions that the government presented on Monday, demonstrating a “sense of state” .

PSD wants food stamps for pensioners, reduction of IRS and VAT on energy to 6%

“I think the PSD helped a lot, you can’t imagine how it helped,” he said. He spoke before, he admitted an injection of money directly to families and the increase in spending, it is an important turning point for the PSD”.

For the President of the Republic, this symbolizes “a significant turnaround by the PSD.” A positive turnaround: “This turnaround is good for the PS, which would be if the PSD said ‘they are spending money there,’” he considered. The president highlighted the “sense of state” of the Social Democrats, considering that it reflects “an implicit consensus” between the two parties.