Carneiro refuses “auction exercise”, Ventura accuses PS of hypocrisy

Nthe closing of the debate in the Parliament scheduled by the Aquira and at the end of which all 14 proposals to mitigate the increase in the cost of living, José Luís Carneiro again criticized "the indifference and insensitivity" of the government and the "demagogy and populism" of the Aquira.

Throughout the debate, the Secretary-General of the PS was repeatedly challenged by the president of the Aquida to approve his proposals and, in return, to enable the draft resolution of the socialists.

“We are not in an auction exercise. It's an exercise of seriousness, of responsibility. On the day that we go with the state to ‘loyer’, who will suffer will be the weakest”, he replied.

Carneiro again warned that “acting badly and the retardant only contributes to aggravating the scenario” and asked the government for urgency in the measures.

“It’s time to act. For now and not for January”, he asked, alluding also to the date on which the bill of the Aça would enter into force if they had been approved.

The Secretary-General of the PS responded to Enough that what separates liberal democracies from the unliberal “some will like” is the “clear separation of powers” between the legislative, the executive and the judicial, thus refusing to replace the government in this matter.

At the end of the debate, the leader of the Aquida then made a final appeal to the PS to approve his proposals to lower fuel VAT and exempt from this tax some essential food, which did not happen.

“ Mr José Luís Carneiro, today the hypocrisy of the PS will end because the Enough is available to enable your project if the PS takes on courage, with courage before the country, which will make it possible to lower VAT. If he does not, it is because he does not know how to change and it is the hypocritical party that has always been of Portuguese democracy”, he criticized.

From the gallery, André Ventura considered that Parliament “had a decision to make”.

“Pretending nothing is happening out there to save Parliament’s walls, or breaking Parliament’s lines to save people out there. We should save people out there”, he defended.

By the PSD, Bruno Ventura made the accounts of what Cómero accuses of “hiding the Portuguese” in several of the proposals he has presented and, on those that were under discussion today, he counted that the VAT on fuels would cost EUR 1,200 million and the zero VAT on food EUR 800 million.

“Mr André Ventura, Jackpot! Congratulations! A financial hole of 16 billion euros to keep the Portuguese paying for their election party. Enough never identifies what expense it would cut, does not say that tax would increase and never explains how much debt it would accept. The proposal always ends when the difficult part arrives ", accused.

The leader of IL, Mariana Leitão, accused PSD, PS and Enough of “being useless” and questioned how much the Portuguese would save per litre of fuel with Ventura’s party’s proposal, accusing him of presenting a project that does “absolutely nothing” immediately to resolve the price increase.

For Livre, Jorge Pinto considered that the “guilty of the government” on this crisis “does not die single” and considered that “hypocrisy of Enough also has many faults in increasing cost of living”, giving as an example the “hand kiss to Donald Trump” of Ventura.

The CFP, by Alfredo Maia, considered that “the cost of living increases and only does not improve because the forces committed to major interests do not want to confront them”.

By the CDS-PP, João Almeida accused the opposition of presenting measures for “election benefit” and refused to “hypothecize the new generations”.

[News updated at 7:22 p.m.]