The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda considered this Monday that the proposal to reduce the IRC is only “very useful” for large companies and has no impact on small ones “that are desperate.”

I just spoke to the producers here. [e] none of them told me about IRC. It’s just that, for those who are very comfortable with the lowering of IRC [é] only to very large companies, the same companies that are making excessive profits. This sometimes seems like a comedy skit,” said Catarina Martins.

The BE coordinator spoke to journalists at the end of a visit to the Fundão market, in the Castelo Branco district, where she contacted local producers and heard concerns about rising inflation and its impact on their activity and on the price of the products.

“So, we have the European Commission saying that excessive profits must be taxed, because there are sectors such as energy, such as banking, such as large distribution, which are earning billions of euros, while the population suffers from inflation, and the The proposal that the Government has is a tax proposal that has no impact on small businesses that are also desperate with inflation and what it serves is to forgive taxes, precisely for these large groups that are already making more profit. It’s absurd,” he argued.

In the opinion of Catarina Martins, “the absolute majority made a choice” and “this is your choice”. “While those who live on their pension, on their salary, are getting worse and worse, all they can imagine is how to give more tax credits to the great economic profits that are already being profited abusively with the inflation that we are experiencing,” concluded the coordinator. of being.

During her visit to the Fundão market, Catarina Martins heard from some local producers who complained about increasing problems with inflation, drought and summer forest fires.

The farming couple Cândida and João Proença gave an account of the concerns of the moment and mentioned, as an example, that they sell cow’s milk for 40 cents a liter and the rations have risen in price and are “crazy”. “This is good for those who don’t work”, admitted Cândida Proença.

Miguel Fiadeiro, a technician from the Fundão olive growers’ cooperative, said that the costs of agricultural production are increasing more and more and are not reflected in the valuation of the products by the market.

Catarina Martins considers that Portugal “needs food sovereignty”

The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE), Catarina Martins, considered that Portugal “needs food sovereignty”, warning that “it is dangerous” to depend too much on the outside.

“Agricultural production is essential in our country. It is also a security condition. Our country needs food sovereignty, not being so dependent on foreigners. As we are seeing this is dangerous”, said Catarina Martins.

The BE coordinator spoke with journalists at the Fundão market, in the Castelo Branco district, where she contacted local producers and heard concerns about rising inflation and its impact on their activity and product prices.

According to Catarina Martins, national farmers are going through “an increasingly difficult situation” due to fires, drought and also due to the high price of products in international markets, such as fertilizers and energy.