The PSD and the CDS delivered, this evening, a proposal to amend the State Budget for 2025 (OE2025) which aims to reinforce the funds of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM), making its own revenues that come from premiums or contributions become part of the budget for the following year.
According to the proposal that has already been submitted to Parliament, consulted by Renaissance“the management balances of the National Institute of Medical Emergency, in the part in which they result from own revenues arising from premiums or contributions provided for in paragraph a) of paragraph 2 of article 9 of Decree-Law no. 34/ 2012, from February 14th, are transferred to the following year’s budget, being allocated to INEM expenses”.
Also this Thursday, at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting, the government accused the previous socialist executive of taking revenues from INEM to invest in public debt.
António Leitão Amaro said that the previous socialist Government allocated 48 million euros of INEM revenue to the Treasury and Public Debt Management Agency (IGCP) with the aim of investing in public debt securities.
“At the end of 2023, INEM had in liquidity – placed in the IGCP in public debt – at least 48 million euros of revenue, which were not spent, of investment and expenditure”, said António Leitão Amaro, in a press conference, after meeting of the Council of Ministers.
Also this Thursday, the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, announced that the government is preparing to present a new plan to prevent the country from experiencing further delays in aid from INEM, which may have led to more than 10 deaths in the last week – although there is still no proven correlation between delays and fatalities.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, defended that it is necessary to determine “responsibilities”, both on an administrative and political level, in relation to what happened with the INEM strike.
Source: rr.sapo.pt
