Greenland, National Health Service, purchase of ambulances for INEM and increase in the tax burden. There were several topics debated this Wednesday in Parliament.
Greenland was one of the topics under discussion, this Wednesday afternoon, in Parliament, in the . Regarding the state of the SNS, the prime minister repeats that the situation is better than a year ago.
Hospital emergencies return to parliamentary debate. The prime minister maintains his position and the opposition repeats the accusations.
“There is chaos in healthcare, just go to a hospital emergency room. There has to be a commitment from the Government to resolve it in x amount of time”, says Pedro Pinto, from Chega.
Luís Montenegro disagrees that the SNS is in “chaos”despite recognizing difficulties and embarrassment.
“But it works better today than it did a year ago and a year ago it worked better than it did two years ago”, he adds.
A few weeks later, the topic of purchase of more than 200 ambulances for INEM.
“How did he have the nerve to bring an initiative to this assembly as if it were his responsibility when he was part of the Socialist Party”, says José Luís Carneiro.
The Prime Minister accuses the previous PS Government of, in 2023, not having carried out the purchase of ambulances in the six months it was still in office. But now it ends up saying that another semester passed before final validation took place.
“The acquisition procedure was launched on July 7, 2025 and the ESPAP board of directors approved the purchase, the award, on January 7.”
In the exchange of themes, the PS accuses the government of having increased tax burden by 6.8% last year.
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“The need to call things by name, to say that it is unacceptable, we do not sit at the table with authoritarians, with imperialists”, says Isabel Mendes Lopes, from Livre.
The prime minister responds, saying that he has “prioritised the balance of interests, without disregarding the principles of international order”.
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