PS/Azores admits to abstain from the 2027 budget subject to conditions

“ Sand the Regional Government wants the PS/Azores to be a partner in approving the Budget, through abstention, will have to take into account several issues, namely the issue of cost of living and the decline in fuel prices,” said Francisco César, re-candidate to the party’s leadership.

The socialist leader spoke to journalists in the margins of the meeting of the Regional Commission in Ponta Delgada, which scheduled for 15-17 January the regional congress in Angra do Heroísmo, being re-candidate to leadership.

On November 14, the elections will take place for delegates to the Congress and for the party’s leadership, and Francisco César presents himself with “a very clear objective: the Azores need a new future, a change in the course that is being followed”.

For the socialist leader, people “live worse and the prospects for the future are nothing encouraging in any sector, whether in agriculture, fisheries, tourism and what is related to the cost of living”.

Francis Caesar intends to make clear in his motion for a strategy the need to pay “special attention to the cost of living of families”.

“ On October 1, each person will pay more, only in fuel, gas, diesel or gasoline, with these increases, plus 62 euros. A family that has a housing loan that runs the 250 thousand euros will pay another 180 euros per month of payment to the bank,” he said.

Moreover, “the price of the supermarket is increasingly high and there are no policies from the point of view of air transport and cargo”, according to the socialist.

Francisco César considers that “the Regional Government is making money from fuels” and “must arrange a mechanism, through the ISP or solutions similar to the ‘e-voucher’, as the Government of the Republic once did”, to return the remaining to families.

Francisco César wants to invest in education and qualification, since the Azores “are in the tail of the country”, proposing in the area a project of common interest.

The leader of the PS/Açores also intends to “clean the public accounts of the region, whose situation is serious”, and “the last deficit in the Azores was more than 5% and the public debt higher than 6% in terms of GDP in terms of growth”.