Despite being at odds politically, Chega and Bloco de Esquerda came together by calling the 3.57% interim increase in pensions from June, announced by the government this Monday, a “cheat”.
“Retirees will continue to lose income. Costa agrees with Chega when he said this was a scam. We could go further. We had exceptional additional income from inflation and we are giving crumbs to people. The government is enriching itself at the expense of inflation It was a propaganda action by the government,” Chega leader André Ventura said in Évora.
“This increase is a scam, as the Bloco de Esquerda has always said. The government has instrumentalized pensioners on their deficit. The government is not complying with the law on updating pensions. Even with this update, pensioners will continue to lose purchasing power. Six months for a long time they have not paid the pension they owed,” Catarina Martins said in the Assembly of the Republic.
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Source: DN
