CDS-PP President Nuno Melo today urged the Prime Minister to reduce VAT on basic products “temporarily at zero rate” and create a regulator for the agri-food sector.
“Due to food inflation exceeding 15%, we call on António Costa to temporarily reduce the VAT on basic products to zero,” said the centrist leader in the closing speech of the CDS Staff School, which takes place from Thursday in Espinho.
Citing that “the state had already collected more than 5,000 million euros of emergency revenues up to May”, Nuno Melu considered this income “necessarily perverse, because due to inflation and at the expense of the absurd sacrifices of taxpayers and Portuguese families.”
“It is immoral that the state collects millions of dollars every day through inflation and the sacrifice of Portuguese families,” he said.
Another of the proposals put forward by the President of CDS-PP was the creation of a regulator for the agri-food sector: “We are calling on the Prime Minister to create a regulator for the sector that ensures balance and fairness for products. prices, [cujo preço ao produtor está] still suppressed in the mechanisms of relationships between manufacturers, intermediaries and distributors, ”he argued.
Emphasizing that “the lowest prices in the European Union are practiced in Portugal”, Nuno Melu said that “manufacturers are desperately trying to survive and not close their doors.”
In his speech, the centrist leader also criticized the fact that the Minister of Health has resigned to present a diploma governing the new executive leadership of the National Health Service (SNS).
“It is unacceptable to the CDS that the replacement of the Minister of Health is not quick, and less acceptable that Marta Temido can complete the process of presenting the diploma governing the new executive leadership of the SNS to the Council of Ministers.” , he said.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
