The president of the PSD opined on Tuesday that the state budget for 2024 (OE2024) is “pipi, well presented and very small, so that it seems like it is doing it, but it is not”, because it “maximizes taxes and minimum services ” has. .
“It is, again, a pipi budget, a budget that looks good, very presented, but that is only an appearance, it is very small, it looks like it is doing it, but it is not, it presents objectives, it presents ideas, but then nothing happens”said Luís Montenegro in the opening speech of the PSD National Council, which takes place in Maia, Porto district.
In a speech lasting about half an hour, the Social Democrat added that OE2024 is “a fact that doctor António Costa presents every year with his usual smile”.
And he added: “First with Dr. Centeno, now with Dr. Medina, but always with the same burden, always with the same inability to meet the reality of charging, charging and collecting taxes and disinvestments, disinvestments, disinvestments. “
This Tuesday, the government presented the 2024 state budget (OE2024), which revises gross domestic product (GDP) growth upwards from 1.8% to 2.2% in 2023, and downwards from 2.0% to 1.5% next year.
The unemployment rate is being revised upwards for next year and is now expected to reach 6.7% in 2024, up from the previous 6.4%.
On inflation, the executive is slightly more pessimistic, forecasting inflation to fall from 8.1% in 2022 to 5.3% in 2023 and 3.3% in 2024.
The proposed law also provides for the best budget balance in a democracy, at 0.8% of GDP in 2023 and 0.2% in 2024.
The OE2024 proposal will be discussed and voted on generally on October 30 and 31, with the final global vote taking place on November 29.
Source: DN
