PCP Secretary General Jerónimo de Sousa defended this Sunday in Grândola, Setúbal district, that emergency measures and solutions are needed to halt the economic and social decline and ensure the country’s development.
“Emergency measures are needed and solutions are needed that guarantee the improvement of people’s living conditions, stop the economic and social decline and ensure the development of the country.”he said.
Jerónimo de Sousa spoke at the conclusion of the VI meeting of the Regional Organization of the Alentejo Coast, which took place today in Grândola.
According to the communist leader, these emergency measures “cannot be seen” in the “State Budget Proposal (OE) for 2023, in the agreement on social dialogue, recently signed between the government and major employers’ federations” and “in the signed agreement on public administration” .
“On the contrary, they are not only ignored, but also directives and measures are adopted with very negative consequences for the workers, the people and the country,” he criticized before an audience of several dozen party militants on the Alentejo coast.
The OE2023 “not only exacerbates the tax injustice, which lacks the long-justified measures to alleviate labor income, beyond the necessary update of the limits of the IRS scales to the inflation rate that occurred in 2022, as follows the policy of real devaluation of salaries, careers and occupations in public administration”said.
For Jerónimo de Sousa, this proposal will also deepen “the impoverishment of the majority of the population”, the “lack of government responsibility for the public school” and continue the “degradation of social networking sites”. [Serviço Nacional de Saúde]”.
The OE2023 does not provide “fundamental answers to housing problems, the rights of children and parents, the cultural sector, the difficulties of thousands of micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs”, according to the secretary general of the PCP.
“A budget proposal that translates the ability to reduce debt and deficit due to the reduction in the real value of salaries and pensions, through the devaluation of services and public investment, through the worsening of fiscal injustices,” he added. .
In the opinion of the Secretary General of the PCP, Portugal needs “tax justice” not a “tax shock”.
“They always talk about the fiscal shock”, but “our proposals” made to the Assembly of the Republic “have another concession: they are proposals for fiscal justice. Neither a shock nor half a shock, which is necessary is, in fact, that justice, this balance in relation to taxes,” he concluded.
Source: DN
