In an interview with the Hora da Verdade da Renascença program and the Público newspaper, due in full on Thursday, Luís Montenegro reiterated the accusations made by the PSD to the government of creating “an illusion and deception” for pensioners.
“The government gives in 2022 what it takes away in 2023, it evades the government’s responsibility to help retirees with an extra income, it gives zero,” he said.
Luís Montenegro also accused the prime minister of having “deliberately” defrauded retirees and retirees.
“I do not want to believe that the Prime Minister did not know what he was doing (…) It should be clear that the government and the PS have chosen to cut a billion euros in the pension system in Portugal,” he pointed out. .
The PSD chairman said that “the billion euros that the cabinet now proposes to pay from January 2023 is no longer in the pension system, with consequences for all subsequent years”.
“As a result, the PSD has submitted a request for parliamentary consideration of this bill with the intention that it can be discussed as early as next week, on the 15th, when we have the vigorous planning of our draft resolution on emergency measures,” he announced. at.
As these are “related matters”, the PSD leader says the bank will ask for the scope of this discussion of the request for parliamentary appreciation.
“And the situation has been clarified, it is important that the country and the pensioners know what is going to happen,” he said.
Parliamentary review allows deputies to discuss, amend and at least annul a decree-law, a diploma that falls under the responsibility of the government and has not been voted in the Assembly of the Republic, in the case of the government diploma that establishes exceptional measures to support families to mitigate the effects of inflation.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on Monday evening – while the Prime Minister was still being presented to the media – passed this decree-law that, among many other measures, “will make payments to retirees of 14 and a half months of pensions, instead of the usual 14 months”, with the government already announcing that this extra half pension will be paid in October.
In turn, on September 16, a proposal for a government law will be discussed in parliament with measures to support families that were also announced on Monday, but must be approved by the Assembly of the Republic, including a transitional arrangement for the pension update to be are applied from January of the following year and change the formula currently in force.
Source: DN
