The BE National Directorate meets on Saturday to discuss the final vote on the General State Budget for 2023 (OE2023), a document that the blockers consider “impoverishmentand that it had already deserved the vote against in general.
At the end of this meeting of the party’s highest body between conventions, which takes place in Lisbon, the BE coordinator, Catarina Martins, will hold the usual press conference to present the conclusions.
An official party source told the Lusa news agency that “the political situation, the response to an impoverishing Budget and the vote of the Left Bloc” in the SO2023 global final vote, scheduled for next week.
“The Left Bloc criticizes the way in which the Government, refusing to respond to the loss of purchasing power, sees inflation as an opportunity to adjust labor income. The Budget proposal does not respond to inflation, it does not protect the income of those who work and it does not even include the set of intentions that the government has been announcing”, criticizes the same official source.
In the general vote, the BE once again votes against the document presented by the Government from PS.
These budget options have been strongly criticized by the blockers, and the party presented around 150 proposals for amendments to the document that will now be voted on.
Last week, Catarina Martins accused the Government of not wanting to talk about the budget.
“He does not want to talk about the State Budget and we understand why (…) The real loss of the average salary, at the moment, is comparable to the times of the troika, that is why the Socialist Party does not want to talk about the Budget, because the Budget does not have any measure to prevent the impoverishment of those who workquite the opposite”, said Catarina Martins, in Porto, at the 1st Anticlimactic Gala.
After a meeting at the request of the Government even before the general discussion and vote, in October, the BE, through the voice of the parliamentary leader, refused to contribute to the “simulation of negotiations” that it considered this meeting with the executive had been. on the State Budget, a document that he considered at the time “made by the right”.
Source: Observadora
