“ We're always asking people for effort. Where is the state?”

“ A true, the state never makes the effort. We are always asking the effort, people, people to live worse, where is the effort of the State?", asked Mariana Leitão.

In this sense, he argued that “the state has to take its hand out of people’s pockets, it has to ensure that the money they produce to work, or invest, is theirs and is used for them to have a good life and not to feed the vices and incompetences of the state and this is something that is essential to be done already so that people can actually live better”.

Mariana Leitão spoke today to journalists on the edge of the fourth edition of the “Just X’IL – Liberal Academy of Youth” in a hotel unit in the Baths of São Pedro do Sul, in the district of Viseu, and with about a hundred people.

“ We have an approved proposal, we have done our part, we have succeeded in approving the proposal, it is now up to the government to implement it. We have already tried to resolve this part by immediately relieving families of the increase in fuel prices,” he said.

According to IL’s draft resolution, the measure in question proposes that the tax on petroleum products (ISP) should be reduced in such a way as to cancel double taxation and also to safeguard that the final tax ensures that Portugal has a fiscal effort on fuels, equated with its purchasing power in the European Union, ensuring its justice.

“ We are talking about a difference of minus 30 cents per litre, it makes a lot of difference in people’s lives,” said Mariana Leitão.

For the leader of the IL, the party has already made its proposal on fuels and, in this regard, said that this weekend in São Pedro do Sul, with young people, is also a way to “enrich and prepare to look at the world and the country and also to make their contribution”.

“ We're having very interesting panels, with guests with a vision for the country. Policy is made for and with young people, because we always have to have a long-term vision. We can't run a country thinking about today or tomorrow, we have to think about 10 or 20 years. We have to think about the country that we want to leave these young people and the younger ones ", defended Mariana Leitão.