Africa-Press – Cape verde. The deputy of the Cape Verdean, Independent and Democratic Union (UCID-opposition) João Santos Luís today accused the Government of practicing an “exorbitant” fiscal policy that impedes the country’s economic growth.
The parliamentarian elected on the UCID list urged Ulisses Correia e Silva’s executive to provide “better conditions” to the national private sector, reducing the sector’s operating costs and this, the deputy replied, “has not been done”.
“The country has the conditions and potential for more robust economic growth,” said João Santos Luís, for whom a change in the tax burden will increase the possibility of more investments in Cape Verde and, therefore, “greater growth” in the national economy.
The president of UCID also made these considerations following the political declaration of the Movement for Democracy (MpD-power) today in parliament, where he highlighted the economic growth in recent years.
For deputy Aniceto Barbosa, who gave voice to the MPD bench, “to talk about economic growth we have to talk about [its] redistribution”.
Cape Verde, he said, has seen “growing dynamics, through structural reforms, which have impacted our economy in some way.
This economic growth, he stressed, is supported by a policy of the MpD Government and materialized by the Government of Ulisses Correia e Silva.
Still following the political statement by the MpD, the decision by the mayor of Porto Novo, Elisa Pinheiro, to increase the minimum wage in the municipality to 19 thousand escudos came to the fore, when the deputy Damião Medina, from the party that supports the Government in Parliament, stated that the decision by the mayor of Porto Novo was due to the increase in the transfer from the Financial Equilibrium Fund (FEF).
The leader of the PAICV parliamentary group, João Baptista Pereira, contradicted deputy Damião Medina, highlighting the “extraordinary decision” of the mayor of Porto Novo, which according to him, benefits sanitation personnel, “the class that earns the least”.
“I ask Mr. Damião Medina why the previous president did not implement these measures, when they always said that the economy was growing,” said João Baptista Pereira.
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