The PSD defended this Thursday that the measures for young people presented by the Prime Minister are “patches” that come “in the wake” of the Social Democrats’ proposals, accusing António Costa of being “not a doer, but a bad follower” . .which copies badly”.
PSD Vice President António Leitão Amaro responded in statements to journalists on the measures announced on Wednesday evening by PSD Secretary General and Prime Minister António Costa in a speech at the Socialist Academy, the party’s ‘rentrée’ in Évora.
“It seems clear that the government is reacting in the aftermath of the PSD: it is copying, but it is badly copying the country,” he criticized.
According to the Social Democratic leader, the Prime Minister has “presented no more than Band-Aids and is incapable of a structural response”, contrary to what he defended as the PSD’s proposals.
Leitão Amaro pointed out that it was the PSD that first proposed a 15% maximum rate on the IRS for youths up to 35 years old over a year ago, which he deemed more beneficial than the solution now proposed by the IRS. the government (and which implements this by lowering the reductions in this tax in the first years of work).
“The government still won’t give back what the state charges more for inflation,” he criticized, lamenting that the executive “continues to whistle aside” on the PSD’s proposal to suspend the IRS at all levels (except the last). to lower. this year already with a total value of 1,200 million euros or ‘failed’ proposals for tax exemption when purchasing the first home.
“These are structural and would make a difference. Frankly, eight years later, it is heartbreaking to see António Costa and the PS unable to provide a structured response to the Portuguese,” he said.
PCP says Costa’s youth measures fail to “get to the root of the problem”
This Thursday, the PCP classified most of the measures António Costa announced on Wednesday for young people as harmless, claiming that they do not address the root of the problem, such as low wages or job insecurity.
“Again, these are ads that don’t get to the root of the problem, don’t address the problems that exist in the country: low wages, insecurity, lack of access to education or housing. What is being done is to perpetuate these problems. , where innocent measures are taken here and there that fail to reverse the lack of perspective of young people”criticized Deputy Alma Rivera in statements to journalists in parliament.
The communist deputy reacted to the measures announced on Wednesday evening by PS Secretary General and Prime Minister António Costa in a speech at the Socialist Academy, the party’s ‘rentrée’, in Évora.
When asked whether the PCP does not see anything positive in the measures announced by Costa, the deputy points to one: the free passes for young people up to the age of 23, but remembers that the party had already proposed this a year ago and ‘failed’ by the PS in the state budget for 2023.
On the subject of tuition fees, Alma Rivera believed that the Prime Minister’s announcement that “they will be reimbursed in a few years” means that they will currently remain as “an additional cost to higher education students”.
“The problem occurs today. Also with the young IRS, the government tells us that it will not continue to make efforts to solve the problem, but that it will continue to put aside the fundamental problem: the abysmal wages paid in Portugal, related to uncertainty,” complained he.
The PCP deputy also challenged the Prime Minister to explain “whether what he is announcing for young people’s holidays should be taken seriously”, recalling that there are only 5,000 vacancies in the youth hostels.
As for the choice of the “timing” of the ads, the deputy said a month before the delivery of the state budget that the party is already used to “concentrating more on the ads and less on the implementation and effectiveness of the responses.” adopted by the government”.
IL says Costa’s measures are “plans” to mislead young people
The IL leader on Thursday believed that the measures presented by the prime minister for young people are “plans that aim to mislead people” and that “the most prepared generation ever” will know how to identify who has been victimized.
At the press conference presenting the program “Housing Now”, in Lisbon, Rui Rocha was asked about the measures presented the day before by António Costa, including that for every year of work in Portugal, the government will return to students one year of tuition fees that they paid during their first years of employment at a public university in the country.
“I believe that the most prepared generation will ever be able to clearly identify when it is the victim of a plan whose sole purpose is to demonstrate the lack of solutions for a life project in the country”started answering.
Whether it’s the tuition fee measure or the changes announced to the young IRS, in the IL leader’s analysis, they always leave a question: “Do any of us want to live in a country where a life project can be built or do we want to be the target of a bait with a hook to trap people?”.
For Rui Rocha what it takes “It is a country that creates wealth for everyone and regardless of the age of people”emphasizing that “everything else is schemes aimed at deceiving people”.
BE accuses the government of taking measures to pay as little and as late as possible
The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE), Mariana Mortágua, accused the government on Thursday of taking measures to “pay as low and as late as possible”, thus failing to solve the problems faced by citizens.
“The government has this way of presenting measures aimed at paying as little as possible and as late as possible and normally the result is that this does not solve any problem and entangles people in complicated support that is never for today, and that is never for now, which always have recourse terms,” he lamented.
Among various measures, the PS Secretary General and the Prime Minister, António Costa, announced on Wednesday in Évora that for every year of work in Portugal, the government will refund to the students the fees they pay for public education. the tax office Jovem.
After a meeting with the Associação Académica de Coimbra, which aimed to address the lack of student housing in the current school year, Mariana Mortágua stressed the importance of creating clear measures that immediately solve the problems faced by citizens.
According to him, the government’s measures lead people to believe that “they will get support that they never will.”
“We saw this in the rents and we see this in the fees as well,” he added.
Speaking to journalists, the blogger defended that if there is a problem with bribes, “because the bribes are zero”.
“And if it’s a housing problem, limit rents and lower house rates. These are clear measures that are now solving the problem of people’s lives,” he insisted.
According to Mariana Mortágua, promising things for the future has no impact if problems are identified and may serve “only a few people”.
“It is another twisted way of presenting measures that never get to the root of the problem. And the heart of the problem is the salary, the bribe and the price of the house. That’s what we need to focus on to provide the answers people want and deserve to hear,” he concluded.
Source: DN
