The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Carlos Abreu Amorim, will present the document to the first Vice President of the Parliament, Social Democrat Teresa Morais, in a meeting scheduled to take place in the visitation room of the Assembly President, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco.
The presentation is scheduled for 11:30, and the document is expected to be fully disclosed afterward.
The Government program was approved by the Council of Ministers on Thursday and will be discussed in the Assembly of the Republic on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the press conference following the Government meeting, the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro, described the document as “an ambitious program to transform the country,” outlining its ten priority axes.
The first priority is titled “an income policy that values work and savings, merit, and social justice,” the second concerns state reform, and the third aims to “create wealth, accelerate the economy, and increase added value.”
On Thursday, the minister assured that state reform would not involve layoffs of public workers or salary cuts, clarifying that it will focus “on the reform of public administration and the state business sector.”
A “regulated and humanistic immigration” is the fourth priority, followed by ensuring the “quality” functioning of public services through “a complementarity between public, private, and social provision.”
The sixth priority emphasizes “closer security, faster justice, and combating corruption,” while the seventh concentrates on housing.
The construction of new infrastructures is the eighth priority axis, the project “water that unites” the ninth priority, and the tenth pertains to “a strategic defense investment reinforcement plan.”
The PCP has already announced it will present a motion to reject the Government’s program, but the Communist initiative is certain to fail, as it will not receive support from PSD, CDS, Chega, or PS.
The second PSD/CDS-PP Government, led by Luís Montenegro, was sworn in at the end of last week, comprising 60 members (including the Prime Minister, 16 ministers, and 43 secretaries of state), one-third of whom are women.
The AD coalition (PSD/CDS-PP) won the legislative elections without an absolute majority, electing 91 out of 230 deputies, 89 from PSD and two from CDS-PP.
Chega has become the second-largest parliamentary force with 60 deputies, followed by PS with 58, IL with nine, Livre with six, PCP with three, and BE, PAN, and JPP with one each.
Luís Montenegro has been the Prime Minister since April 2 last year, following eight years of PS governance.
