The PSD chairman told delegates on Thursday that the party will abstain from Chega’s motion of censure against the government, which he classified as “childish and childish”.
“We are not the party of motions, we are the party of solutions,” said Luís Montenegro during the meeting of the PSD faction, in which he is participating on Thursday, according to reports to Lusa about the meeting taking place behind closed doors. doors.
Chega’s motion will be formalized on Friday, the first day of the second legislative session, and will be discussed and voted on next Tuesday.
At the end of his speech, the PSD president was applauded by the delegates.
Montenegro criticized the initiative of the party led by André Ventura, “announced half a year in advance”, which would see Chega miss the opportunity to censor the government in the first week of the new legislature and “then move on”. complaining for a year.”
For the PSD leader, this is an “improvement motion”, which “does neither good nor harm”, and will even temporarily relieve the government “when the majority stands up to vote against”.
“We don’t play around with motions, we come up with solutions. The most important thing is the debate the next day: reducing taxes,” he said, referring to the debate on the PSD’s tax reduction proposals, scheduled for the 21st.
The PSD president wondered whether this motion will “reduce family benefits and food and house prices,” or “solve the fiscal attack” and the problems of the SNS.
The PSD abstained from voting in the two motions of censure submitted to the current government: the first, by Chega, in July last year, and the second, proposed by IL, in January.
In the case of IL, the PSD’s abstention caused some controversy within the bank, with deputies André Coelho Lima and Carlos Eduardo Reis defending in an explanation of vote that there were reasons for the PSD to approve the Liberals’ text, warning for risks. of “lack of demarcation” in abstention.
In his intervention that lasted more than half an hour, Montenegro emphasized that “the eyes of the Portuguese” are and will remain focused on the PSD.
Regarding taxes and the possibility of prioritizing the reduction of the IRS, he emphasized that “the PSD is the party of the middle class”, “of those who depend on their work, on the product of their efforts”.
“Today I defend what I defended as a candidate for the presidency of the PSD: the priority is to reduce income taxes,” he said in response to criticism from the PS, which accused the party of changing its priority because it stood for elections under the previous leadership of Rui Rio to defend the reduction of the IRC for the IRS.
PCP will vote against the government’s motion of censure filed by Chega
The PCP announced on Thursday that it will vote against Chega’s motion of censure against the government because it discredits the use of this constitutional instrument and because the initiative is part of a right-wing dispute.
This position regarding Chega’s motion of censure, which should be discussed and voted on in the plenary next Tuesday, was conveyed at a press conference by communist deputy Alma Rivera.
“This motion of censure belongs to the right. It even represents the discrediting of the use of an instrument. The motion of censure is believed to be an urgent instrument that will be debated over the next three parliamentary days. In this case, this motion of censure has been announced for months as a way to settle positions among the right. So it does not serve the interests of the Portuguese”explains Alma Rivera.
The PCP deputy emphasized that her party opposes the policies followed by the socialist executive with an absolute majority.
Alma Rivera defended that the PS government allowed the accumulation of wealth and favored large companies, “with a policy of clear settlements at the cost of a total degradation of the country and the living conditions of the Portuguese”.
“That is why we fought the government’s policies. Other parties, namely Chega, are opposed for other reasons,” the PCP delegate said.
Source: DN
