After being approved in May with the votes in favor of the PS and the abstention of Livre, PAN and the PSD-Madeira deputies, the Budget for 2023 that should be delivered to Parliament next Monday only seems to please the Socialist Party.
Even without knowing the document, and only with what they heard in the meeting with the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, the parties are already multiplying their criticism of the scenarios outlined by the Government.
On the right, the largest opposition party says that “the government’s economic engine has a cold” and that “next year’s growth will be well below that of the EU’s competitor countries”, while Chega points to the ” little ambition of the Government”. and the Liberal Initiative already sees “budgetary risks”.
It was Miranda Sarmento’s turn to speak for the PSD, at the end of the meeting, to warn about the “regression already in the next year of private consumption” that will hinder the government’s accounts. “Private consumption will shrink next year. What was the growth engine of this Government is also already suffering from the flu. In the best of cases, next year we will have growth slightly above 1%,” said the Social Democrat, who also stressed that the “economic growth of 2022 is illusory” and that “it results from the collapse after the pandemic and tourism”, which should experience a retraction in 2023.
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Source: Observadora
