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Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>The president of the UCID party criticized the 2026 State Budget today, stating that it \u201cprioritizes government propaganda and technical assistance,\u201d while keeping workers, the elderly, and people with special needs in \u201cextreme poverty, without addressing historical debts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy Joa\u0303o Santos Lui\u0301s, who is also president of the Cape Verdean Independent and Democratic Union (UCID, opposition), made these criticisms at the opening of the parliamentary debate on the 2026 State Budget, and considered the government’s proposal a \u201cwasteful and electioneering instrument\u201d that \u201cignores structural problems and commitments made\u201d by the executive branch.<\/p>\n

For the parliamentarian, the State Budget should be \u201can instrument that reflects the appropriate policies of all sectors of activity, as well as the availability of resources and their correct application.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he highlighted that the current proposal does not adequately address the promises that the government has been announcing in terms of infrastructure and measures that impact economic growth and the lives of Cape Verdean families.<\/p>\n

According to the UCID (Union for Democratic Coalition), the tax burden continues to increase, now representing 20% \u200b\u200bof the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while \u201cthere is not even an increase in productivity, an issue that the UCID has been drawing attention to for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deputy warned of the growth in public debt, which \u201cincreases from 200 million escudos in 2016 to 313.7 million escudos in 2025 and 317.4 million escudos in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe servicing of internal and external debt increases from 30.7 million escudos in 2025 to 31.9 million in 2026, negatively impacting the attraction of investments and access to credit for projects considered priorities,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that the internal debt, considered “more dangerous,” will increase from 99.1 million escudos in 2025 to 108 million escudos in 2026. The external debt, according to the figures presented, will stand at 210.6 million escudos in 2025 and 209.2 million escudos in 2026.<\/p>\n

The parliamentarian stated that the Government “is once again dropping the mask,” recalling that, because it is an election year, the Budget allocates more than five million escudos to technical assistance for residents and non-residents, in addition to government advertising and propaganda, expenses considered of “dubious application” which, in his view, do not reflect “the necessary transparency of public spending.”<\/p>\n

The UCID also criticized the absence of support measures for workers, the elderly, and people with special needs, who remain “in extreme poverty with a meager six thousand escudos per month since 2018 for food, medicine, and housing.”<\/p>\n

The deputy also recalled \u201chistorical debts of the State,\u201d such as \u201cmore than 600,000 contos\u201d owed to former workers of EMPA, a public company dissolved in 2003, and the absence of survivor pensions for former military personnel from the first intake in 1975, who continue to live in precarious conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are facing a 2026 State Budget that clearly reflects a wasteful and electioneering instrument,\u201d he declared, concluding that it symbolizes the closing of a ten-year cycle of policies that, in his assessment, failed in several strategic areas.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Cape verde. 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