Élvio Sousa, considering the Regional Budget for 2025 “spending”, said that he will present approximately 30 proposals for amendments to the document prepared by the PSD/CDS.
At the end of the usual meeting between the leading bodies of the JPP, militants and sympathisers to analyse the proposal, a meeting that, this time, was attended by the candidate for the Funchal City Council, Fátima Aveiro, the Secretary-General of the JPP stressed that “it is a shame that the Regional Government is using taxpayers’ and businessmen’s money to increase the governmental structure.”
Élvio Sousa recalled, in this way, the creation of another Regional Secretariat to house the CDS, and the 3.4 million euros “spent on appointments to date, in specialist technicians, an unacceptable situation, never seen before, in just over two months.”
In the 30 measures that it will present, the JPP focuses on reducing the cost of living, proposing a reduction of one percentage point in the general and intermediate VAT rates, thus lowering the price of fuel, electricity and telecommunications; the recovery of the tax differential of 30% up to the 7th IRS bracket; the reinforcement of funds to reduce waiting lists for consultations, diagnostic tests and surgeries; more public housing supply, implementing an emerging plan and using not only the RRP funds, but also a part of the overall budget balance of 134 million euros to build more homes.
“The situation of thousands of families who have jobs, but cannot have a home, is quite worrying,” said Élvio Sousa. “Our proposal is for the Government to contract with all municipalities the construction of housing for the middle class, young people, and the working class,” he concluded.
Samantha Gannon
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