CHEGA leader has ‘irrevocably’ pulled party out of negotiations
Portugal’s minority AD government is calling parties for a second round of talks on measures planned for the State Budget.
The talks will take place next week, in parliament – times to be announced.
The whole issue of whether or not this State Budget will pass; whether or not the country will be forced into new elections (if it doesn’t pass…) etc. etc. has been discussed ad infinitum, with a degree of reportedly ‘fake news’ thrown into the mix.
Latest ‘news’ from CHEGA, led by André Ventura – and who claims the government has been involved in secret negotiations already with PS Socialists – is that the party will “absolutely” be voting against. The certainty is “irrevocable”, Ventura has told journalists – using a word that has been used in the past, when the end result was quite the opposite. This time, vows Ventura, it won’t be: irrevocable with CHEGA means just that: the party, he says, has “given everything” for the government to have a viable State Budget, and on each ‘giving of everything’ it has been met with a ‘no’.
The government, of course, says the opposite.
The first round of meetings on the State Budget were fairly lacklustre in that they took place before parliament broke for the summer recess, and neither party leader was present.
This time round it will be ‘much more serious’, inasmuch as the State Budget has to be presented to parliament next month, and voted on in all its phases by the end of November.
