The PSD chairman on Thursday accused the prime minister of having “a rhetorical skill” about pensions and showing “social insensitivity” to the poorest pensioners, by paying a higher allowance in October to those who earn the most.
In his first intervention before the National Council, Luís Montenegro continued on the topic that marked the dialogue between the PSD’s parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, and the Prime Minister, António Costa, in the general policy debate in parliament this Thursday. .
“The prime minister can play the word games he wants, it’s not about pensions increasing in value from one year to the next, it’s about the value of the increase before 2023 being millions of euros less and the value until the end. retirees live less billion euros, period”accused, in the most acclaimed passage of his speech to councilors, which was opened to the media this Thursday.
Luís Montenegro also accused António Costa of “fumble in your own abilities”: “It’s so much skill that it gets in the way later, so much skill that it gets confused then”said.
The PSD leader pointed out that after referring to the amount that will be paid to retirees in October in anticipation of what would be owed to them by the pension update’s calculation formula, Costa now speaks of an “extraordinary allowance”, equivalent to half pension. .
“If it is an extraordinary allowance, the Prime Minister and the government have lost even the idea of social justice sensitivity: what they do is give 2,500 euros to those who earn 5,000 euros in pension, 2,000 to those who earn 4,000, and it gives 200 to 400 who win or 150 to 300 who win. This is unacceptable in a socialist or social democratic policy”accused.
Source: DN
