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This afternoon, Parliament has a 60-page voting scenario on government initiatives and party seeking approval, even at the end of the legislative session. One can guess a long afternoon of parliamentary work that, in fact, has already begun – and intensely – well before this Wednesday. In the 24 hours before that time, parliamentary committees ran marathons of votes in the specialty and in other last – minute negotiations. The fact that the government was able to obtain very few votes, as was the case with the petroleum tax, raised serious problems, but there were more problems that required a final effort. negotiation.
The day began shortly at eight o'clock in the morning (an unusual time for the start of the work), with the meeting of the local committee on the environment and energy which had on the table several initiatives. to resolve and, in the forefront, the controversial changes to the legal regime of local accommodation. Shortly after, the Budget and Finance Committee began a lively discussion, the collapse of the ISF that the CDS was able to endorse at the end of June in plenary and that he was now trying to d & # 39; approve in committee. The work was interrupted, with the PS to seize to negotiate with the left a change of position that allowed to stop the ambition of the right. Many members of this committee did not even have lunch, and some stole directly at the end of the debate from other committees. In the case of Pedro Mota Soares, who went from there to the hearing of the former Minister of Economy Manuel Pinho, who was already a member of the Committee of the economy.
Through these raids, some members of the government also marched before Parliament this last day. committees to ensure the approval of certain degrees even earlier in this legislative session. This was the case of Ministers Vieira da Silva, Azeredo Lopes and Siza Vieira. But that day was really a marathon of approvals and statements – which ran until the PSD's parliamentary party dinner with Rui Rio, and the announcement of the abstention in the code work. But this issue will only be resolved at the next session.
This Wednesday, the final accounts are in legislative session, the Parliament going on vacation after this vote. The observer went to see how the PS solved some of the most sensitive issues for the government and what it could not stop in the home stretch.
The ISP and the dissolution of a "negative coalition." The drop in the Petroleum Products Tax ended up in the hands of the left-wing partners, even as on June 21, they made possible the CDS project to realize the reduction with immediate effect, right, in a "Negative coalition" what is called the moment when the left holds to the partnership that had with the PS, or when the right joins the PCP and Block against the government). But after a long discussion on Tuesday, the CDS's ambition fell to the ground, after the PCP and Left Bloc racked up the rope at the last minute. The PSD again tried a proposal to change the CDS project, but as the left did not make it viable, it also ended up refraining from voting on the Christian Democratic initiative. But before we came to this end, there was nervousness qb. in the PS, who tried to postpone the vote to save time. At the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance, which discussed and voted on the ISP proposals, the socialist concern about this measure became clear: a reduction in the fuel tax at this stage would have an impact on tax revenue if it is already lower than the state budget. On the right, the argument is that the total VAT receipts are high, so there would be no problem in reducing this tax which, moreover, did not accompany the falling prices of the oil. The meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance was even interrupted the PS trying to reach an agreement with the left to make the CDS project unsustainable. The PCP and the BE had to change the June 21st abstention for the vote against. It was enough to abstain, so that the accounts were no longer a characteristic of the socialists and the government. The PS eventually stopped insisting on postponing the vote – on the grounds that it was awaiting an opinion requested by the Constitutional Affairs Committee on the constitutionality of the CDS initiative – when it went ahead. realized that, after all, the left would infringe rights. The " contraption" finally worked (by last minute bargaining strength) the decline in the ISP will not happen immediately, but it is certain in the next state budget. The CDS will try again at the beginning of the legislative session, with an identical initiative. If this is not the case, it is guaranteed that the left-wing partners will try to reduce it through the state budget. Everyone wants to bring a major political victory to the election year that weighs directly in the pocket of the taxpayer (and the voter).
Labor reform goes with the PSD. The vote on labor legislation that came out of the social agreement agreement will not be the last, yet the discussion in the specialty is lacking, but the approval has been shaken up to At the last hour. It was not until Tuesday night – elsewhere on the ballot that it was almost impossible – that the government was aware that the hand of the PSD, even with a timid forbearance, would be able to reach agreement with the social partners. This is because the other partners, the left ones, oppose what has been written with the bosses, and the PCP is even preparing to vote against it. The Left Bloc is between voting against and abstaining. Vieira da Silva already knew that he was not counting on the left to see his work reform go by, so he could get the right viabilization, usually more sensitive to an agreement signed in the social agreement. The suspicion has been confirmed, even if in recent days the Portuguese Confederation of Business has started to be uncomfortable with the way the government translated the agreement into bills, even considering it as "totals" violation and deformation of the agreement. Now, this position made the PSD think that it was waiting for the leader's instructions, Rui Rio, until early last night. The Social Democrats have decided, despite criticism from the CIP, to make possible the reform of Vieira da Silva's work. At least in the first vote, because the detailed debate remains for the specialty and will not be resumed after the summer, even on the state budget.
PS approves changes that displeased Costa When he was born, mid-year In the past, the PS bill with changes to local housing had the gift of not winning consensus in Parliament and generate anti-bodies in the government itself. PS was isolated. The proposal was announced the death – António Costa has not reacted in the version of two Socialist deputies – but, in the last phase of the legislature, the parliamentary left presented a united front that approved most measures proposed by the Socialists. The most sensitive measure for the government, in the proposal presented by Mr. Carlos Pereira and Filipe Neto Brandão, provided for the possibility for the owners of condominiums to prevent an owner of buildings from turning their house into tourist housing. . "More than half" of the neighbors against the company and local housing has been blocked. "The parliamentary groups have autonomy, but it commands caution that when a deputy wants to bring a case before Parliament, one must first ask the government what he thinks of it. case, which has not been the case ". close to the Secretary of State for Tourism. A year later, the same measure is passed in the specialty and everything indicates that it is happening the same way in the overall final vote of this Wednesday. It was the left parties – PCP, Bloque and ENP – to "save" the Socialists and allow a proposal that the Prime Minister himself did not approve of going ahead and being implemented.
Proposals to amend the social protection scheme of the local housing scheme give municipalities the opportunity to define "containment zones" for the installation of new housing premises. Municipal councils may also, depending on the degree, "impose" a limited number of spaces dedicated to this activity. In addition to the PS, the PCP and the Left Bloc voted in favor of the proposal. The right was alone in the vote against. To veto the creation of tourist accommodation – one of the most sensitive measures – it is sufficient that "more than half of the building authorized in a reasoned decision" denies this intention. However, it is necessary to have a "repeated and proven practice of acts that disrupt the normal use of the building, which cause discomfort and affect the rest of the condominium owners" . In these cases, the co-owners – who also get new powers to increase the co-ownership quotas by 30% – inform the respective room chair of their decision and the owners are prevented from going ahead with l & # 39; company.
of the partner on the right The Bloc gave the hand to the PCP, which has now given the PSD hand and PS has picked up the hand. The CDS, that one, said that he showed the hand only later. In a marathon of amendments to the local finance law, the craft operated intermittently and the great support of the socialists even ended up being the PSD. Tuesday's vote was not peaceful and it was not even due to the way the different parties decided to vote on the proposals. The CDS, explained Cecília Meireles, did not take part in the vote because she considered that the members of the working group of the local finance law were not "able to do the votes ". The bloc left the room after expressing "unease for the way the process unfolded," but ultimately approved their proposals and those put forward by the Communists and rejected all the proposals of the PS. The equation ended up being a sum of socialists and social democrats, who must subtract the name of the deputy Paulo Trigo Pereira (PS), criticizing measures such as the change of VAT or the fund created to compensate the municipalities for new skills. "The generally accepted articles are not in line with the government's agenda and therefore are not a useful instrument in the decentralization process," the MP noted in his voting statement.
Compensation of the owners for the cleaning of the fuel belts It is a point of work for the government and this even was admitted by the PS during the communist project debate in the specialty. The Socialists tried to demobilize the CFP of the project in all respects, in particular by dramatizing the cost that could represent for the injured owners: 900 million euros. The estimate of the PS (and the government) is excessive, according to the PCP, which, in counter-argument, says that the compensation would be only for cases where there is a proven loss of productive potential on the properties where these Fuel management tapes need to be created – appeared as a fire prevention measure. Communists say that there are forest properties in minifundio that will lose yield with the creation of tapes and that no compensation is expected. Regarding the potential costs of the proposal, they ensure that the value does not reach the PS's forecasts. "It will not have this dimension," said MPP MP João Dias. In any case, the communist project has the support of the PSD, which approved it last week in the discussion of the specialty (only the PS voted against). And this unusual combination of forces will be repeated this Wednesday in the final vote of the project, allowing it against the pretensions of the socialist government.
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