Miguel A. Lopes / Lusa
PSD President Luís Montenegro
Prime Minister provides for a new budget surplus, guarantees less bureaucracy and leaves warning about “political judgment” in the Constitutional Court.
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, predicted that the country will have a Budget surplus At the end of the year, stating that the economy is having a “good performance” and will surprise “many pessimists.”
“I have no doubt that we will arrive at the end of the year and we will have a ‘surplus’ again in the public accounts, we will again be able to say that we have lowered the IRS in the middle of the year, which we have increased the solidarity complement to the elderly, that we gave an extraordinary supplement to pensioners up to 1,567.50 euros and yet we met the balance of public accounts,” said Luís Montenegro in the party of the party of the party of the party of the party of the party of the party of the party of the party of the party of the party Pontal, on the Quarteira boardwalk, in the Algarve.
Montenegro stated that the executive will be able to reach this ‘surplus’ while performing the recovery and resilience plan (PRR), It builds houses and rehabilitates health centers and schools.
“We are doing things with balance, With sense of responsibility, ”he said, stressing that the Portuguese economy, despite the international context“ is with good performance ”and will“ surprise many pessimists later this year ”.
Less bureaucracy
Luís Montenegro announced a new process of simplification and elimination of bureaucracyintroducing the possibility of, with a single request, having a second -way of all documents.
“These are things that seem small but will give people more quality of life,” said the social democratic leader at the Pontal party.
Another of the measures will consecrate that the change of the address in the Citizen card be automatically extended to all documents in the state.
In this case, the Single Automobile Document will always have the same household than the citizen’s card, thus no longer fines for those who have different addresses in both documents.
The creation of the possibility of being able to take a trip in several transportation Only with a ticket, not just within a particular county, it was another of the measures announced.
Montenegro said that a virtual wallet with all the necessary documents for citizens and companies to present in the services when requested for a particular application or process.
The president of the PSD and Prime Minister also said that there will be a support program for exchanges of stoves and gas ovens for equipment electric, up to about 1,500 euros, and for slaughtering cars With over 10 years in exchange for electric vehicle, with supports that can reach 4,000 euros.
New hospital
Luís Montenegro announced that the launch of the construction process of the Hospital Central do Algarve It will occur “the latest in early October” in an investment of 800 million euros.
Montenegro needed that the work, which will operate on a public-private partnership regime, should begin to be built in early 2027 to start in 2030.
Fires
The prime minister stated that the government is discreetly acting in the fight against fires, but “very close” and trying to be “as effective as possible”, but referred an assessment later.
Montenegro said he does not forget the compatriots who are “confronted with a scourge”, referring to the forest fires, whose occurrence has attributed to “difficult and adverse” meteorological conditions, often “some lack of care and neglect”, and otherwise “criminal conduct”.
“We are doing the maximum effort not to leave anyone alonemaking the maximum effort to mobilize all the means we have, to safeguard the lives and health of all our compatriots, to safeguard their heritage and what is all of us: our natural heritage, ”he said.
Montenegro said he was doing so “following the situation all the time”, And counting on“ the effort of many women and many men: firefighters, civil protection, GNR, forest sappers, armed forces, all security forces, mayors ”and“ many anonymous citizens ”.
“We are doing it perhaps discreet, But, believe me, very close and seeking to be as effective and efficient as possible. We are doing so using everything that is possible, after we have made a preparation from the point of view of prevention and allocation of the whole system for combat, ”he said.
The Prime Minister commented that the government will present a more severe penal frame for incendays.
Montenegro pointed out, however, that it will not already make an assessment of the fight against fires, because The country is “in the middle of war And it is not the midst of the war ”that this discussion is made.
“We will first win the war, save people, our heritage, our country and here we will be to do even better in the future,” he said.
Constitutional Court
The prime minister warned that it would not be normal for the judges of the Constitutional Court to make “a political judgment when his job is to make a legal judgment”, claiming to expect this not to happen.
Luís Montenegro approached the lead of the Foreign Law by the Constitutional Court To point out that it saw the request for inspection made by the President of the Republic.
However, the chief executive considered that “what It is no longer normal”And“ even a little weird, That’s when there is politicians, political parties, who make the appreciation of a judicial body political decisions ”and“They ask a court to make a political judgment and politically decide a decision”.
“This is no longer normal and much normal it will be, if eventually it happens – and I don’t want to believe it happens – that themselves holders of the judicial power can, themselves, assume a political judgment When its function is to make a legal judgment, ”he said.
Luís Montenegro said he was not concerned about “if things are left or right,” but rather to solve the problems and the future of the country, “before leaving new criticism of the opponents.
“I must even confess that sometimes I get a little perplexed – I won’t say uncomfortable, but perplexed – because I see so many people explore points of view, assume political positions, under the cover of independencenot exercise of political functions, or even the exercise of other functions are in the public space, ”he said, without specifying, but stressing that they are people who speak in the television, radio or newspapers.
The prime minister stated that these people “speak with such vehemence, with such vigor,” which often wonders how it is possible to “have no political position” and assume functions that, by nature, should be “equidistant of politics.”
“They speak with such a vigor that it is superior to that that we ourselves, who are from political parties, have. (…) It is a relatively strange thing in the days that we live in such a great club of those who have no club. Clubism Of those who do not have a club than those who have a club, which is our case, what the president of the club, ”he said.
“Very serious”
The PS leader considered “incomprehensible” and “very serious” the “attack of the Prime Minister to the Constitutional Court (TC) and his judges for complying with the Constitution,” accusing the prime minister of being “oblivious” to the country’s problems.
“AND incomprehensible the attack on the TC And to their judges for fulfilling the Constitution, the attack on journalists for making information, analysts for doing opinion and even the editorial criteria of televisions, ”lamented José Luís Carneiroin statements to journalists in Paredes de Coura.
The Socialist Secretary-General said he was “Very serious what was said about all: journalists, televisions, commentators and judges of the TC. ”
“We have a Prime Minister completely alien What is going on and living in the country, ”he said.
Carneiro also said that Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has repeated some of the socialist messages.
“But its function is not to repeat the opposition leader’s message. It is to perform what has committed itself.” It has failed in all dimensions, “he said.
Carneiro also stressed that Montenegro “severely failed in health response,” not being heard “a response to women who walk from land to land to give birth, to housing, another serious problem, or salary issues.”
