The president of the Portuguese Association of Retirees and Pensioners (APRE), Maria do Rosario Range, he said today that the Finance Minister has just made an invitation to pensioners do not vote in the coalition PSD / CDS-PP.
Mária Rosary Gama, socialist leader, was speaking to journalists at the end of the first part of the meeting of the PS National Committee, during which he said keep their differences face the possibility of the election program provide for a reduction of the single social tax (TSU) for employers and employees by four percentage points.
But the president’s APRE was particularly critical of the statements made by the Minister of Finance, Maria Luís Albuquerque on Saturday, that insisted on the need for savings of 600 million euros the costs of the Social Security system.
“The finance minister just made a call to retired persons and pensioners not to vote in the PSD / CDS coalition in the next elections and insisted a measure that was already sinker by the Constitutional Court. But more: the Minister of Finance spoke in cutting pension payments at a meeting with young people [Social Democrats], thus seeking to fuel a conflict between generations, “accused
For the part of the electoral program. PS as it provides for a gradual reduction of TSU, the socialist leader reiterated the criticisms that had done on Wednesday evening, during a meeting of the PS Political Committee.
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