This Thursday, the Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Affairs quoted former Social Democratic Prime Minister Passos Coelho to praise the “miracle” of the economy resulting from “a lot of work” by socialist executives, asking the parties “not to to hide in rhetoric’ in the budget debate.
At the beginning of the assessment in the specialty of the State Budget for 2024 (OE2024), Ana Catarina Mendes, who is accompanied on the bench of the Socialist Government by State Secretaries from different areas of government, was of the opinion that this debate is not only about the budget , “but about the safety net that the state must provide for the lives of citizens”.
The Socialist quoted former PSD leader and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho as saying politics is done “with memory”, a reference that earned the reaction of deputies in the hemisphere.
“Pedro Passos Coelho said on March 1, 2016: If we could all pay back salaries, pensions and taxes without money and in the end the bills would all come together, that would be fantastic. In order to be able to achieve the goals, there is It is either miracles, or there are consequences,” he said.
According to Ana Catarina Mendes, the “miracle” in Portugal is “the result of a lot of work” done consistently by her party’s governments, recalling a recent interview with Jornal de Negócios by Nobel Laureate in Economics Paul Krugman, who argued that what what has happened in the national economy is something of a miracle.
After listing the increases in salaries, pensions and social benefits that OE2024 will bring from January 1, the minister left an appeal to the other parties: “not to hide in political rhetoric”.
“During this month they have failed to seriously criticize this budget,” he said.
Source: DN
