“It’s not because it’s a hard week that PM can throw sand at the eyes”

Jcotrim de Figueiredo considered, on the night of this Sunday, that the government did not tell the whole truth, when he claimed that “win zero with the increase of fuels”.

“It is not because it is a difficult week that gives Montenegro the right to throw sand in people’s eyes,”, said the MEP, recalling that this week the Prime Minister realized that he is “in the most difficult phase of his two warrants”, due to two polls, one of which states that Luís Montenegro “is in decline” and another that puts the PSD “third in the intentions of voting” of the Portuguese.

The guilt of these results, considered the commentator of SIC Notícias, is related to “the weariness of successive polemics in which Luís Neves, Minister of Internal Administration, is involved”, as well as “especially because of the cost of living”.

“There are tight public accounts, difficulties in responding to the difficulties of the population and alternative is to go back to the time of troika. It has been realized that this will be the script”, stated the liberal, pointing this as the scenario for the next six months.

Cotrim de Figueiredo also said that he will never “be hearing him complain about the tax reduction” but recalled that this is “the third time the government has moved the IRS around the year and the reductions in the amount are not fantastic”.

Finally, he spoke of one of the increase that most concerns the Portuguese: rising fuel prices, considering that the government said two things that are not true.

“There are two things that have been said that are serious. The first was that if they had not moved in the ISP they would have collected more taxes, which the Government lost EUR 1,300 million of tax revenue. He never lost because he never had them. It was people's money. It was barely that the government had to gain from increasing fuel in this way”, shot the former leader of the liberal initiative.

And then he remembered that Government said that “wins zero with fuel increase” and shot: “Not quite”.

“The prices of fuels are reflected in everything else. So it will be seen and August budgetary entity data shows the VAT to grow 7% when it should grow 4%. This makes almost 500 million euros difference at the end of the year,” he said.

João Cotrim de Figueiredo culminated in his analysis of the increased cost of living, considering that “all public resources must be addressed to those in extreme difficulty”.