Manuel de Almeida / Lusa
PCP, Livre and Be voted in favor of the motion, Pan abstained and the remaining parties voted against.
O Parliament Chumb today PCP rejection motion to the XXV Constitutional Government program, with Votes against the PSD, arrives, PS, IL, CDS-PP and JPP, PAN abstention and favorable vote of PCP, Livre and BE.
At the end of the electronic vote, in which a total of 228 deputies participated, PSD deputies and CDS-PP applauded standing and Parliament President José Pedro Aguiar-Branco wished the executive.
The minority government PSD/CDS, headed by social democrat Luís Montenegro, now enters the full functions of functionsthe government’s program is over in the Assembly of the Republic.
The XXV Constitutional Government has the support of 91 deputies-89 of the PSD and 2 of the CDS-PP-in 230, in a parliament where it has 60 seats, PS 58, IL 9, free 6, PCP 3, CDS-PP 2 and BE, PAN and JPP each deputy each.
Interventions
About the government program, the president of the arrival, André Ventura, He considered that the government led to Parliament “more powerpoints, more ads and more measurements” that “were not or will not be realized.”
In his speech, Ventura twice compared Luis Montenegro to his predecessor, António Costa, first saying that “they always played both with the same team, the system that dominated Portugal 50 years ago”, are “first, second or third division”, and then considering that the social democrat hit “the record of political nominations in the state apparatus in the last year”, managing to exceed the former minister Antonio. Coast ”.
Ventura warned the government that his party does not accept to be “just a crutch” and indicated that he will take the opposition’s leadership “seriously”, promising to point out the executive’s mistakes.
José Luís CarneiroHe questioned the government’s macroeconomic scenario and warned that his party opposes cuts in rights and divestment in the social state.
“When we end this debate, there are a lot of perplexities. The first is the government not to update its macroeconomic scenario where no one else except the government itself is still pretending to believe,” said the PS deputy.
IL argued that the government program is “offensive” because it is “designed not to offend anyone” and has called for a “management shock in the state”, adding that the PSD keeps Portugal “arrested for decades of delay.”
“This program is nothing more than an exercise in political balance. A catalog of intentionally designed intention not to offend anyone. But that is precisely what makes it offensive. Because by avoiding difficult choices, it abdicates to lead,” he shot, Mariana Leitão.
The free justified his vote in favor of the PCP rejection motion: “They will say that this program is ambitious and has a transformative agenda, but if it does not include science, culture, knowledge, it is because it is not ambitious,” he defended Isabel Mendes Lopes.
The PCP accused the government of having an “old and immobilist neoliberal revenue” that justifies the motion of rejection of its program, corresponding to PS, arrives and Il for supporting “a policy that smells of the ‘troika’”, according to Paulo Raimundo.
The national coordinator of the BE (which also voted in favor), Mariana Mortágua, He accused the government of confusing state reform with its weakening, in a critical intervention of the executive program that turned out to be half.
JPP’s single deputy, Filipe Sousa, He said he will give the “benefit of doubt” to the government, recognizing convergences with the program, but lamented that the executive was not “clearer and more incisive” regarding the problems of the autonomous regions.
