The program of the XXIV Constitutional Government will be delivered to the Assembly of the Republic today at the end of the morning, after approval by the Council of Ministers.
The document will be delivered to the President of the Assembly of the Republic José Pedro Aguiar-Branco at 11:45 am and, half an hour later, the press conference of the Council of Ministers is scheduled, which will meet from 9:00 am, at the official residence of the first -minister, to approve the document.
This Council of Ministers had been announced on Saturday by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, at an informal meeting that brought together the entire Government in Óbidos, and in which he told the media that work on the program was already “very advanced”.
«There is always articulation, coordination, writing work, but we will continue the work in the coming days. We will have a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday at 9:00 am where we will approve the Government Program and send it to parliament», he then said.
On that occasion, the Prime Minister also assured that “the campaign commitments must be fulfilled”.
On Tuesday afternoon, the president of the Assembly of the Republic José Pedro Aguiar-Branco had already informed that a symbolic moment of delivery of the Government's program to parliament by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pedro Duarte was being agreed, which will take place at the end of the conference of leaders.
Last week, at the end of the executive's first Council of Ministers, the Minister of the Presidency António Leitão Amaro declined to answer whether or not the Government's program will have many differences in relation to the electoral program.
In the AD electoral program (pre-electoral coalition between PSD, CDS-PP and PPM for the March 10 elections), it is expected, among other commitments, the presentation of an Emergency Plan for the National Health Service (SNS) in the first 60 days of the executive and the full recovery of teachers' frozen service time in a phased manner over the next five years (at a rate of 20% per year)
Reduction of IRS rates up to the 8th income bracket (between 0,5 and three percentage points), a maximum IRS of 15% for young people up to 35 years of age and the reduction of the IRC rate from the current 21% to 15 % in three years (at the rate of two percentage points per year) are other promises expressed in the AD electoral program, along with the increase in the National Minimum Wage to 1.000 euros by the end of the legislature, the evolution of the average salary to 1.750 euros and the increase from the reference value of the Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly (CSI) to 820 euros in 2028.
The Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government will be presented and discussed in the Assembly of the Republic between Thursday and Friday and, once the debate is concluded, the executive will take on full functions. The PCP announced a motion to reject the document, but the PS has already said it cannot be made viable.
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