The Portuguese Confederation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CPPME), led by Jorge Pisco and based in Seixal, demanded that the Government adopt immediate measures to stop the brutal increase in fuels and prevent an economic crisis in Portugal. The organization warned that thousands of companies and agricultural holdings face a daily suffocation situation and that the crisis is increasingly close, threatening to affect those who constitute the base of the national economy.
The CPPME recalled the storm of increases at the beginning of the year, warning that these companies could be affected again by the increase in fuels and the consequent worsening of prices of raw materials, transport, energy and all services that directly influence their activity. The confederation considered it urgent to control fuel prices and stop the escalation of costs that puts the survival of these companies at risk.
The organization considered it impossible to ask micro and SMEs to indefinitely support the increase in production costs, transport, energy and raw materials, while their income and margins remain crushed. It insisted that companies cannot be required to make a permanent and unlimited effort and that the national economy cannot continue to pay the price of inaction.
The CPPME delivered to the Government a document with seven immediate measures, including effective control of the energy market, price fixing to stop speculation, non-repayable financial support for companies and farmers, expanded access to professional diesel, the return of ISP revenues through the elimination of double taxation, acceleration of the energy transition and the creation of support to compensate for the increase in fertilizer costs and agricultural production factors.
