The President of the Republic stated on Thursday that, in addition to praising the proposal for the 2024 state budget, he reiterates that the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) is postponed and must be accelerated.
“The budget is going well, the implementation of the PRR is not as good as I wanted,” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stated at the end of 2014 in response to questions from journalists at the town hall of Saint-Gilles, in the Brussels region. his state visit to Belgium.
When asked why he praised the proposal for the state budget for 2024, the President of the Republic replied: “For a very simple reason: it exceeded my expectations.”
In his opinion “the Minister of Finance [Fernando Medina] He is very discreet, he led the preparation of this budget in a way that was surprising in terms of the existing resources, and now he has taken advantage of these resources, or can take advantage of them, for complicated or critical moments.”
“But I say this and say, keep saying that the PRR is late. And this is a complicated problem. We look at the numbers and half of the money that has already been made available is on the ground”, he added.
When asked who is responsible in this case, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “the management system changed several times” from governor to governor and that “then there is a part that is not dependent on the government, namely the transition to the government. ” CCDR (Coordinating Committees) and Regional Development), the local government and the administrative machinery to move the projects forward.”
According to the head of state, “the competitions are open, and then it takes forever”.
“The railway has started, but it has not yet started on the ground. The bridges – I am only talking about major public works – have started, but on the ground they have not yet started,” he noted. arguing that “this needs to be accelerated” and that 2024 “must be a year of acceleration.”
Source: DN
