António Pedro Santos / Lusa
André Ventura presents the Electoral Program of Arri
Arri presented this Wednesday the electoral program for the legislatures of May 18 and took over a new motto: now, the party wants to “save Portugal”.
“Clean Portugal” to “save Portugal”, the André Ventura presented the program Electoral of arrives, in a hotel in Lisbon, before deputies and leaders, but no right to questions from journalists.
The most prominent measure was to “increase the minimum wage national to 1,000 euros until 2026 and 1150 euros until 2029.
In addition, the party promises Create a support program for companies that demonstrate an operational fixed weight weight more than 30%, so that they can meet the increase of salaries to pay.
Currently, the national minimum wage is set at 870 euros.
In the electoral program for the May 18 legislative elections, the arrival also proposes “Ensure increased minimum pension”.
“In the first phase, it must match the value of IAS [Indexante dos Apoios Sociais] and, later, to the value of SMN [salário mínimo nacional]”, It reads in the document released, which does not realize a date.
In the presentation of the electoral program, which lasted more than an hour, the president of the arrival considered that “this is a challenge.”
“We cannot continue to have the misery we have through this country. Poverty in the elders generates pressure on health services, housing services, generates depopulation, generates desertification, generates social destruction, ”he said.
André Ventura argued that this will be possible “with a realistic macroeconomic scenario, with realistic economic growth, but also with the restructuring that it is necessary to do in servicesin a realistic way. ”
“We today have a weight of expense around the stateof that unnecessary and superfluous state, which is shocking even for European standards. In organisms that multiply competences, in observatories, in foundations, in institutes, in political nominations, we today have a scenario of absolute expense that we have to start cutting. This will mean less political clientelism, but it will also mean less expense, ”he said.
The arrival also proposes to fix the VAT OF CONSTRUCTION IN THE 6%in order to solve the housing problem.
Referring to, last week in Braga, André Ventura proposed Lei Manu: “When here you commit a crime, two things will happen to you: Thou shalt pay the price of your freedom and be put in prison for several years or decades. But when you end the prison time, you will not stay a second more on this land and you will be returned to your country. ”
“Greatest anti -corruption package in history”
On the day the government announced a draft law, submitting public discussion, which deepens the mechanism of classic and extended loss of property, including after the crimes prescribed or the defendants die. André Ventura found ironic and said: “Now that there are three weeks to the elections say that they say that After all, it was right“.
“The arrival was clear, we said that it takes higher penalties and confiscating the goods of the corrupt“He said.
The president of the arrival indicated that he wants to “move forward with the widespread confiscation of goods” and again said that if it is government, “on the first day” will “present the largest anti -corruption package in the country’s history” without detailing.
Ventura also indicated that he wants to “reform the system of seizure, confiscation and return to the state (and eventual injured) of the heritage and product of economic and financial crime, ensuring, as occurs in Anglo-Saxon systems a effective seizure of goods even before the final conviction and the connected speed of the process in reference ”.
Ventura also considered that “the government had a year to present an anti -corruption package, but never did it, if it were not for the law to fall upon itself.”
