The parliamentary leader of the CFP said today that the State Budget for 2027 does not respond to the rising cost of living, which “is inferring the lives of the Portuguese”, and “deep fiscal injustices”, benefiting economic groups.
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29/09/2026
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Paula Santos spoke to journalists in Parliament after a meeting with the Ministers of State and Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, and Parliamentary Affairs, Carlos Abreu Amorim, on the main lines of the proposal of the State Budget Executive for 2027 (OE2027).
“ The truth is that the situation in the country and that which is the real life every day of workers, pensioners and peoples is an increasingly difficult life and it is a budget that not only does not respond to this set of problems but maintains and deepens fiscal injustices, in fact, for the benefit of even economic groups ", she considered the leader of the communist bench.
Paula Santos stated that the CFP will intervene with “concrete proposals and solutions to solve this set of pressing problems in people’s lives”, focusing on wages, pensions, public services, housing and investment in the productive sectors that free the country from the “impositions and constraints of the European Union” and the “interests of economic groups”.
The Communist MP added that the rise in the cost of living “is inferring the lives of the Portuguese” and that the Government, with the support of the Achequi, IL and PS, has opted for “degradation of living conditions”.
“ The perspectives of the government are quite different from those put forward by the CFP and necessary,” he said, adding that the opposition of PSD and CDS-PP to communist initiatives “reveals that they have no desire to solve the problems.”.
“In fact, what they want is to pursue the policy responsible for the problems that the Portuguese are currently facing,” he added.
Paula Santos also criticised the government's proposal to amend the New Urban Rent Scheme (NRAU), which will be discussed tomorrow in Parliament, pointing out the measure as an example of the executive's intention to facilitate precariousness, instability and evictions in favour of speculation.
The party will take the discussion initiatives to protect those who have housing credit, channel banking profits to support the rise in interest rates and ensure “greater stability and tenant rights”.