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José Luís Carneiro Elected Secretary-General of PS
The Socialist Party rejects negotiating the state budget proposal to 2026, before the formal presentation of the document, two days before the local elections. José Luís Carneiro wants to focus, first, in the municipalities.
“Don’t tell me to put the car ahead of the oxen,” said the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party (PS), José Luís Carneiro.
The socialists intend, firstquietly, ‘treat’ autarchic: On October 12th.
Only after will be available for a possible negotiation of the State Budget for 2026.
Ram seems to have learned from the errors of the successor Pedro Nuno Santosto enter prior negotiations for the State Budget (OE), before its formal presentation in Parliament on 10 October – two days before the local elections.
Pedro Nuno Santos himself admitted that he would not fall again in this error. And Carneiro follows the formula. The PS will not negotiate the proposal before the formal presentation of the document in Parliament.
Carneiro thus puts the responsibility of the government side. “In politics for a while for everything and it is not worth rushing. I don’t even see any advantage to the PS, ”he told Expresso.
“The discussion about the budget will be made in its own time and with data knowledge that no one has today,” he added.
In another interview with, this Thursday the secretary general of the PS stressed that Only thinking about OE after the municipal elections.
Asked if the PS will make the document possible, Carneiro preferred, for now, to leave clear themes worry and that he considers priority for the Portuguese: housing, increased cost of living, public health, transport and mobility.
Criticizing the current government, the PS secretary-general considers that he is diverting from important issues and starting with things that were not even in his electoral program.
“AD, in Parliament, required urgency in voting on sensitive materials, directly related to foreign policy. What happened was that we warned that there were materials that raised serious doubts from the constitutional point of view and regarding the international order“He said to sic.
