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Prime Minister Luís Montenegro talks to Presidency Minister António Leitão Amaro
Program has some news, contrary to what is usual. Many Portuguese should be suspicious.
O government program It was last Thursday, in the Council of Ministers. It has 10 priority axes, including state reform, immigration or increased income.
Contrary to what is usual, this document brings news – because there is three measures that stand out, that They were not in the electoral program of the Democratic Alliance (AD). And these are measures that must create discussion and controversy, warns Pedro Sousa Carvalho.
The economist highlighted in which the most surprising paragraph is the possibility of Review the right to strike. This possibility arises in the government program “quite explicitly.”
It is recalled that the strike law was not a topic of the AD electoral program for May legislatures, but the matter because of the CP strike. The prime minister admitted at the time that it is necessary to analyze “between the effects of the strike, the damage that is caused to the lives of people and the country’s lives. There is a huge disproportion and, frankly, we will once have to charge it,” he said.
Another issue that was outside the AD electoral program, but is in the Executive Program: the government wants to give workers the possibility of choosing to receive the 13th and 14th month in twelfths.
“At first glance it seems positive but it can Wake up ghosts of Troika timeswhen the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho was accused of wanting to end vacation and Christmas subsidies, ”warned Pedro Sousa Carvalho, who, however, stresses that this will not be the intention of this government. But, admits, the intention can“ create distrust ”.
Finally, the state reform. The “net reduction of direct state administration entities”, as read in the government program. Translating: end state services.
Minister Leitão Amaro has already assured that this reform of the Public Administration and the State Business Sector will not be synonymous with dismissal of public workers or salary cut. But “it is normal for some civil servants to have fear”, says the economist on antenna 1.
