The former Eurogroup president and former finance minister, Mário Centeno, considered that measures such as the pension bonus and IRS relief should not have been announced outside the context of the State Budget. The statements come in reaction to the measures announced by the prime minister during Tuesday's censorship motion debate.
Centeno stated that these social support measures were announced in an "ad hoc" manner, that is, opportunistically and without proper coordination with the budgetary process. In his view, this type of decision should be planned and presented within the scope of the State Budget.
The former government official, who led the Finance portfolio during António Costa's government, expressed concern about the way these measures were communicated, suggesting that their implementation should follow the correct budgetary procedures.
The censorship motion debate, which took place on Tuesday, was the occasion chosen by the prime minister to announce these citizen support measures, which generated criticism from Centeno regarding the communication methodology of these public policies.
