Carneiro defends again VAT zero: “We have to respond to families”

“Ithis is how it is within our family: we do not all agree with each other, but once decisions are made they must be made. I understand the concern of my comrade João Galamba, which is to ensure that the country also accelerates investment in renewable energy (...) But while there is that priority, we have to respond to families, which is what is very important ", said José Luís Carneiro today.

The socialist, who spoke to journalists on the margins of the 'rentrée' policy of the District Federation of the Port of the PS, responded to the statements of former Secretary of State for Energy and Environment João Galamba who stated, in an interview with SIC, not agree with the measure of VAT Zero in the food basket, which it considered not to be the “appropriate way”.

In the Garden of the Lord of the Standard, in Matosinhos, José Luís Carneiro again defended the measures proposed by the PS as a way of “responding to families”, through the application of VAT Zero for the food mix and its reduction in fuel.

“In the case of fuels, [the reduction] is via ISP, because it is the way we already adopted in 2022, when, for example, Dr. João Galamba was also in the government and approved these measures”, fired the party leader.

On the accusations made by PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares, who accused the PS’s Secretary-General of defending an economic policy to respond to the crisis to “think about polls”, José Luís Carneiro recalled that these measures were also previously advocated by the Social Democrats when they were opposed: “whether the Minister of Finance or Luís Montenegro proposed that António Costa reduce VAT on fuels from 23% to 6%”.