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Updated September 7, 2022 | 17:56
Livre asks to ‘break the taboo’ of price fixing
Livre’s Ruy Tavares says the government’s package was “too late and too little”.
“But it takes courage. The same courage that is needed to tax excessive profits or obtain resources from financial transactions, in particular real estate, the resources that are needed to have at least a word for those who look at tomorrow’s ECB meeting with the concern of those who know that it will increase their payment to the bank and that in Frankfurt it will be how much it will be, and the government in Lisbon will not say a word to those who already feel the rope in their throats,” he says.
The sole Livre MP also adds that “The government is amending the budget and things need to be changed to fight inflation (…) In Portugal, problems with housing and food supplies (…) need to be invested in public services.”
“It is possible to intervene in the regulation of prices, bringing prices into tables. To do this, we can use constant estimates and algorithms,” he said.
Rui Tavares also gave the example of other countries that are advancing in the production of green hydrogen, and that Portugal should already follow this trend and introduce the use and production of this type of energy.
PAN says: “We had a small package that was just a Band-Aid”
Inés Sousa Real is asking for free transportation for “children, youth, seniors and families in need”, a “25% reduction in fares” and “incentives for travel companies” for employees.
IL says the government is already showing “clear signs of exhaustion and decline.”
There has been criticism from the Liberal Initiative of PS’s management in several areas, from education to health care, as well as the anti-inflation package, with Rodrigo Saraiva stating that the government is incompetent.
Rodrigo Saraiva accuses the socialists of making “lies a way of life” and doing “incompetence in brand image.
Suffice it to say that the chaos in the SNS is “a mirror of what is the result of PS control.”
“FROMhealth care and firefighting are a mirror of what is the result of the management of the PS with an absolute majority obtained only half a dozen months ago,” said Pacheco Amorim for Chega.
PSD: “Replacing a minister without changing government health policy is like treating an open fracture with a band-aid. Doesn’t solve anything.”
“A minister who resigns, but then remains in office for another 15 days with the clear intention of making structural changes to the SNA, is required to appear in parliament,” said SDP’s Ricardo Batista Leite.
The MP says it is “unfortunate” that the PS “prevented a debate in the presence of the Minister of Health.”
“Replacing a minister without changing government health policy is like treating an open fracture with a band-aid. Nothing solves this problem,” he concludes.
PS guarantees that the government “will work to protect pensions in the long term, and also in 2024”
“Retirees in this country do not forget and know that the government will work to protect their pensions in the long term, and also in 2024,” says Eurico Brillante Diaz, PS MP.
“In 2024, pensions will continue to grow, according to the analysis of the price dynamics that will take place in 2023, knowing from now on every pensioner that in January 2024 he will not receive one cent less than in December 2023. “, he says.
“Whoever in this House defended the permanent cuts in pensions and wages in 2014, saying that values cannot return to 2011 levels, is today the one who tells us that the 8 percent increase in the additional benefit cut,” he says.
“The Portuguese have a memory and cannot be fooled,” he concludes.
Ana Catarina Méndez began by saying, “None of us is ignoring the fact that Portugal and Europe are facing the biggest rise in inflation in 30 years. income paths, not cutbacks. (…) with the SDP in government, the first word was “reduction”, now it’s “increase”. In 2015, we decided to be on the side of the Portuguese with a set of measures that we can now see in the reduction of absenteeism, free school books (…) We had an unprecedented pandemic and we knew how to respond with a strong welfare state, we reduced poverty and social inequality”.
“Pensioners will receive the largest increase in pensions in the last 20 years in 2023. The rights of pensioners are respected by never jeopardizing the stability of social security and never mortgaging future pensions,” said Ana Catarina Méndez at the end of her statement. intervention.
BE says that this budget “has already led to the resignation of the Minister of Health.”
On the BE side, Left Bloc parliamentary leader Pedro Filipe Soares accused the government of “theater” with the package presented and that it doesn’t want “the right bills” but “the right sack and now it’s dropping crumbs”.
Pedro Filipe Soares of Bloco de Esquerda says there is “no desire to take care of public services” and “the blame lies entirely with the dock and the government.”
The deputy also recalls that this budget for 2022 has already been called “the most left-wing in history”, but says that “this is a gross mistake for those with left-wing thinking” and even “has already left the post of minister” of health.
As for the presentation of the measures, on Monday the MP says that it was a “great night of propaganda”.
“These were the same measures that the right has taken in the past, and the PS is respecting them,” he says.
Regarding the measures taken, Pedro Filipe Soares states that “all the measures put together are less than what the government charges month after month on value added tax”.
PCP Blames PS for Worsening Inequality and Calls for Increased Wages and Pensions
“The chronic underfunding of the SNS needs to end,” he shoots, emphasizing that it is necessary to “end the growing transfer of resources to private groups and fight deteriorating working conditions,” João Dias begins by saying. for PKP.
“Thus, the government of the absolute majority of PS is preparing to provide even more public and private health services,” he continues.
“The government has been passively watching the weakening of social networks,” says João Dias, emphasizing that it is impossible “to disguise the interests of private medical groups that determine the strategy of reducing public services to a minimum of social security that more meets the needs of users.” fragile, leaving the rest in favor of private sector profits.”
The PKP parliamentary group today accused the government of “growing injustice and inequality” and of continuing to reject wage and pension increases, viewing inflation as “inevitable”.
“The government has a responsibility to cut wages and pensions, and to increase injustice and inequality. Inflation is not inevitable, and injustice and inequality are not a matter of chance,” accused the leader of the communist bench, Paulo Santos, at the beginning of the debate in the Standing Committee of Parliament on the rising cost of living.
The Communist leader added that the rise in inequality and injustice “is the result of right-wing policy options” adopted by the socialist government and “a systematic refusal to do what is necessary.”
According to the party, chief executive António Costa “has been circulating the historic boost for months,” but what he really wants to do is “hinder” his evaluation.
“There are solutions, and PCP has presented them. The time has come to fight for them,” said Paula Santos.
Solutions to mitigate the effects of inflation on the Communists are: higher wages and pensions; “urgent” control of prices for essential goods, fuel and electricity; prevent rent increases; increase “the size of social benefits and expand their scope.”
Source: CM Jornal
