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Prime Minister Luis Montenegro during a debate in Parliament
The prime minister made several announcements in the government program debate and left messages to the PS and reaches the risk of the executive not complying with the four-year legislature.
During this Tuesday’s debate on, Luís Montenegro made several ads and left notices to the PS.
Regarding government priorities for this legislature, Montenegro guarantees that state reform is not to “reduce” but to give “effectiveness” to public services. “It is not about reducing the state, but to give it effectiveness and return authority,” he says.
According to Montenegro, other priorities of the new Excitive are also going through the increase in income, the creation of wealth, the improvement of public services and the complementarity with the private, the Combating Housing Crisis or regulated immigration.
“We have to break inertia and overthrow obstacles to the full functioning of our economy and our society. The first and greater of these obstacles is the bureaucratic hypertrophy of the state. We declare war on bureaucracy”He promises.
The Prime Minister also announced that, by the end of the year, the government foresees the beginning of 1500 elements at GNR and PSP and, in the coming days, will propose the Revision of the Nationality Lawincluding widening cases where nationality may be lost when serious crimes are concerned.
“We will approve in the coming days a proposal to revise the Nationality Law, a proposal to change the law of foreigners with implications in limiting access to family regrouping, simplifying the process of repatriation of illegal immigrants and we will return to the creation of a unit of foreigners and borders in the Public Security Police,” he said.
Also in the coming weeks the government will decide “the reduction of another 500 million euros in the IRS As early as 2025 ”, as provided for in the program.“ This is a new reduction operating to the eighth level, benefiting the lowest income, but especially the middle class, the class that is active, ”he says.
Strike now has minimum guaranteed services
Confronted by the PCP about a possible attack on labor rights with the proposal to change the strike law, Montenegro notes that the goal is that there is “minimum guaranteed services“.
“We do not want to offend workers ‘rights, but to reconcile workers’ rights to strike with others to work,” he says, arguing that it is up to politicians to change laws when they “They work badly“.
The Prime Minister gave as an example the Lisbon Metro, without directly referring to the company, because he marked “a plenary all night until six in the morning, on a party day”, referring to the interruption on the night of St. Anthony.
Already in response to André Ventura’s question about the risk of the entry of half a million immigrants through family regrouping, Montenegro advances that this possibility will not be suspended.
“What the government intends to do It’s squeezing the rules moreBut it is not suspending the possibility of family regrouping for immigrants, ”said Montenegro, who additionally argues that having structured and well -integrated immigrant families“ is good for economics and development ”.
Regarding the closing of emergencies also brought to the discussion by venture, the head of government says it is still in a “Recovery” path And recognized some “frustrations” for not being able to solve the problem last year.
Asked by José Luís Carneiro on changes to the rules of selection of the leaders and the model of the Recruitment and Selection Committee for the Public Administration (Cresap), Montenegro signaled openness and recognizes that the model “should be improved”.
However, the prime minister rejects the idea that there was a lot of partisanship in the nominations, but recalls that it is not possible to manage the state “without the least political confidence to comply with the guidelines emanating from those who decide ”.
In response to Mariana Mortágua, who confronted him about the government’s response to the housing crisis, Montenegro also announced that 13 thousand homes will be ready By the end of June – half of the 26,000 the executive promised until 2026.
Montenegro acknowledges difficulties in the execution of the promise, but accuses Mortágua of “pessimism” and states that the execution rate is now at 27% and continues to rise. Asked by Rui Tavares about the emergency fund for housing, Montenegro also promises that “it is for a few weeks.”
Scraps to the PS and arrives
The Prime Minister also made it clear that he considers that the next legislature will not last four years if there is a “deliberate, active and complicit coalition”Among the two largest opposition parties, referring to the PS and arrives.
“This government is here to comply with the four -year legislature. We all know, and the people who have decided also know that the legislature will not only have this duration if the two largest opposition parties assume a deliberate, active and accomplice coalition politically,” he says.
Montenegro also rejects that the total guilt is from the government if there are again early elections, stressing that “ political stability It is everyone’s task“.” It is a common good to protect both by the majority that supports the government and by different oppositions, “he reinforces.
“Unquestionably, the people decided with the vote that this is the government that wants and not another,” he argues, recalling that AD obtained a “major majority” in the last elections.
However, Montenegro says he does not want to “decrease” the PS and promises a “French, open and authentic dialogue“With the socialists. The Prime Minister emphasizes that the government” does not exclude anyone “from negotiations, leaving a barba to the arrival.
“We will never reduce the PS And we will not fail to have a frank, open, loyal and authentic dialogue with the PS, ”said the prime minister.
