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Prime Minister Luís Montenegro
In 100 days, the government has launched reforms of labor laws, nationality and foreigners, announced a “page turning” in education, the widening of young IRS and the reduction of the IRC. In the same 100 days, the country has burned and the NHS is still in crisis.
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegrothis Saturday pointed out the 100 days of the executive, considering that decisions were made that projected the country “for decades” and praising the “very high international quote” of Portugal.
“In these first 100 days, we took essential decisions to solve people’s concrete problems and project the country to decades. We are a reformist and humanist government ”, reads in a published by the chief executive PSD/CDS-PP on the social network X.
Montenegro added that “each person and the future of all” is the focus of the government and praised the “very high international quote” of the country, at a time when several international financial notation agencies have risen the rating of Portugal.
“And believe me, Our international price is very highas I just prove in the East. We all have the responsibility to focus on what is important, ”he wrote.
This Friday, in Osaka, at the end of two days of an official visit to Japan, the prime minister said he had news that he would be “for hours”The possibility of a Another agency climb the ‘rating’ from Portugalstressing that, 15 years after the Troika, “Portugal is today an example in Europe from the financial point of view.”
On the same day, the Financial Notation Agency Fitch climbed the ‘rating’ from Portugal of a- to a, with a stable perspective, pointing to various reasons for the climb, such as the continuous debt reduction, a balanced budgetary positionreduced deficits from 2026, increased exports and resilient growth.
Fitch thus joined other credit agencies, which have climbed the ‘rating’ From Portugal, such as DBRS, which evaluates sovereign debt in A (high) and Moody’s in A3. S&P improved ‘a’ to ‘a+’ classification, just six months after another climb.
The President of the Republic, MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSAconsidered that the national economy is on the “good way”, noting that international evaluations are “Very, very good”which said it is important to attract foreign investment, at a time that “in Europe and in many countries around the world, the economic situation It is still critical. ”
“We are on the good way. We are on the good way and this is something that I, by the way, took the opportunity to underline with the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, because Portugal is having international evaluations that are very, very good, ”he told reporters after having lunch at a Portuguese restaurant in Berlin, where he is on a official visit.
New laws, old problems
The XXV Constitutional Government took office on June 518 days after AD-PSD/CDS-PP coalition in May 18 legislatures.
In the 100 days that have since took place, the government has announced as more emblematic measures a, a, however, a new one, a “turn” with one, OAS.
In the same period, Luís Montenegro faced a fires during which forest, the INEM crisisalso in the hangover of deaths allegedly caused by, and problems in the NHS, focusing on Emergency crisis – Theme in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had very high expectations regarding the capacity of the government, but.
The first 100 days of the second government of Montenegro continued to be marked by the spinumvivathat the Prime Minister has had difficulty undoing. “There was no more scrutinated politician”Said the presidency minister, António Leitão Amarowell podcast, yes sic.
