The leader of the PSD said this Thursday that the Executive “should not hide” the main guidelines of its policy, revealing the expected macroeconomic scenario, but refused to interfere in “institutional relations between the President of the Republic and the Government” .
I agree that the Government must offer the country the main guidelines of its policy, and not hide these guidelines waiting for the wind to blow the day or the day before essential proposals such as the State Budget are going to be presented… institutional relations between two sovereign bodies – the President of the Republic [PR] and the government”, affirmed Luís Montenegro.
The president of the PSD was speaking to journalists, before a visit to Nonagon, —Parque da Ciência e Tecnologia de São Miguel, in the Azores—, in the framework of the first inter-parliamentary meeting of the party in the Azores, after being questioned about the declarations of the PR that it was important” that the Portuguese knew what the macroeconomic scenario foreseen by the Government was.
Montenegro noted that, “as a political party with parliamentary representation”, the PSD will carry out its work, “of scrutinizing and supervising the proposal that is presented”.
On the other hand, he said, the PSD will not stop “providing the main guidelines that we would like to see reflected in this fundamental document for governance.”
The President of the Republic said this Wednesday that “it was important” that the Portuguese knew the macroeconomic scenario planned by the Government and that in this way it would be understood that there is “margin of maneuver” in the General State Budgets for 2023.
“As the State Budget is certainly practically ready, it is customary to present it to the parties, but I think it was important to tell the Portuguese: ‘The scenarios that exist for the times to come are these,’” Marcelo Rebelo said. de Sousa, on the sidelines of a class he taught at Escola Secundária Pedro Nunes in Lisbon, the former high school he attended.
And he added: “There you can see the room for maneuver that there is for the State Budgets to come.”
The head of state stressed that the “most important thing at this time” is that the Portuguese “realize what the government’s vision is”specifically Fernando Medina, who is in charge of the Treasury, on the “near future”, despite recognizing “all the difficulty that this implies”.
Source: Observadora
