The PAN spokeswoman, Inês Sousa Real, defended this Sunday that in the State Budget proposal for 2023, the Government should focus on public transport and the review of IRS levels, in addition to improving animal protection.
“It is essential that the State Budgets guarantee a greater commitment to public transport, the revision of personal income tax levels -it is essential to reach the middle class and the youngest- and also to lower the IRC”, said the leader Village -Animals-Nature Party.
Speaking to the Lusa agency during an initiative aimed at marking the opening of the PAN’s political year, Inês Sousa Real pointed out that “the money exists, it cannot continue to subsidize oil derivatives, who pollutes the most, who benefits the most”, must channel “to families and small and medium-sized companies”.
“And we hope that this principle can be reflected in the State Budgets,” he stressed. Regarding animal protection, one of the banners of the party, the PAN spokeswoman stated that, “in addition to this route that has been taken to increase the values and funds destined for protection”, the Government must implement them.
“Because the Government has been a bad student in relation to the execution of EU funds and also from the European point of view [a] sometimes listening to messages from Brussels – the windfall profits tax told us – but it has taken a long time to support civil society that is helping animals, and that is incomprehensible,” he said.
Inês Sousa Real also defended that “it is essential” to combine “the energy transition and the fight against the crisis, not only climatic but also socioeconomic, with the necessary green economy”.
“We cannot forget that this transition is a great ally in the fight against inflation and war,” he said, arguing that the country needs “to have energy autonomy, energy communities in the country, to combat energy poverty,” if it is that he does not want “to be dependent on countries like Russia and on Russian gas”.
The sole PAN deputy also considered that “indeed, there is a paradigm shift here that has to be present in the State Budget, because this Government and successive governments have been slow to carry out the structural reforms that the country needs.”
The Government will deliver on October 10, to the Assembly of the Republic, the State Budget proposal for 2023 (OE2023).
The OE2023 will be debated in general on October 26 and 27, with the global final vote on the diploma of the Government proposal being scheduled for November 25.
Source: Observadora
