PS still wants to negotiate IRC, Medina is already putting pressure on Pedro Nuno to make the State Budget viable
The meeting in São Bento lasted less than half an hour, but that half hour was followed by long hours of reflection late into the night. Pedro Nuno Santos met with his hard core in Largo do Rato to agree positions on the “irrefusable” counter-proposal that the Government had just made to the PS to make the State Budget viable and the reaction came in a trickle. First, it was necessary “to analyze”said Pedro Delgado Alves on SIC, then it was necessary to smooth out rough edges because, despite the Government having given in to the IRS Jovem model and adopted that of António Costa, it was necessary read the small print. It was already past midnight when Pedro Nuno Santos left and gave assurances that he was still on board: “QWe want to avoid elections and we want to avoid a budget blow, so we will make our contribution”. At the end of the day, ‘responsibility’ mattered more than ‘intransigence’.
For this it is necessary resolve at least one irritant: the design of the IRC measurewhich continues to foresee a “transversal” and not a “selective” reduction in tax, despite the Government having partially met the socialists in the counterparts, providing tax incentives for companies that value salaries (albeit in different amounts than the PS proposed) and reduction of autonomous taxation, as the socialists predicted in their electoral program. THE The Government’s “effort” had been a “serious effort to get closer”, said former PS Finance Minister Fernando Medina in a reaction at 10pm, on the Now channel, which deviated from the script that was being cautiously prepared in Largo do Rato.
