IL’s sole deputy in the Madeira parliament, Nuno Morna, said today that he will vote against the region’s Budget for 2024 in general terms and presented 10 proposed amendments that could change the position in the final global vote.
“After a much more careful reading of the Budget, we have not changed our minds. Unfortunately, it reflects a wasteful, welfare-based and ‘subsidiary’ approach, characteristics of a clearly socialist tendency that brings nothing new, perpetuating more of the same”, he stated.
Nuno Morna was speaking at a press conference at the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, where the region’s Budget proposals, worth 2.195 million euros, and the Investment Plan for 2024, budgeted at 877.9 million euros, will be debated between Wednesday and Friday.
“There are three votes on the Budget. The first vote is a vote in general terms, that is, we will vote on what we received from the Government (PSD). If I say that it has nothing liberal about it and is a socialist Budget, our vote is clearly against in general terms”, explained the Liberal Initiative MP.
Nuno Norma said, however, that his position in the final global vote depends on the discussion in detail of ten proposals presented by the party, including the 30% reduction in all Personal Income Tax (IRS) brackets, as provided for in the Regional Finance Law.
Paulo Cafôfo, president of PS Madeira
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In Madeira, this tax differential is already in force in the first four tax brackets and, according to the Budget proposal for 2024, presented by the Social Democratic minority executive, it will also cover the 5th tax bracket, with retroactive effect from January.
Among the proposed changes indicated by IL are administrative simplification and debureaucratization, the creation of mechanisms to use containers that leave Madeira empty with a view to obtaining prices that increase the competitiveness of exports and the creation of a transparency portal.
The liberals also advocate mechanisms for managing and controlling tourist flows in the most popular locations, the assessment of public spending at the level of the business sector overseen by the region, the automatic binding of teachers hired after four consecutive contracts and the creation of an electronic health record.
Regarding the Budget proposal presented by the Social Democratic minority executive, Nuno Morna criticizes, among other aspects, the fact that it allocates 1.533 million euros (around 70.8%) to operating expenses, which he says reveals a “heavy and inefficient administration”.
Source: expresso.pt
