This Friday, in the Assembly of the Republic, a PAN draft resolution that aims to guarantee timely support to populations affected by bad weather in Portugal, in January and February. The PAN came forward with this measure, which, once approved, was sent to the commission, and this Friday it must count on the support of the left, including PS, but also Chega, which will allow its implementation, from what DN was able to know.
In this case, the PAN presents in the project the elimination of the requirement for regularized tax and contributory status for “access to support for the reconstruction of homes and facilities destroyed following the extreme weather events that occurred in January and February 2026”, can be read in the proposal.
“It seems to me that since the most vulnerable people are those who are most affected and do not have the capacity not only to deal at this moment with the replacement of the amount they owe to the tax authorities, but also with receiving support, are you available to consider and help these families as well instead of applying an absolutely blind criterion?”, asked Inês de Sousa Real in Parliament in the debate on February 19th.
In this case, the measure must be approved even because it does not represent an increase in debt and even, as far as it was possible to know, because it is not correlated to other tax assignments.
It is worth remembering that also last week in plenary, the PAN bill that creates an exceptional financial support regime for animal protection entities affected by extreme weather events was also approved, moving on to the specialty. At the time, the votes against from the PSD and CDS and the abstention from the Liberal Initiative were not enough to prevent approval, with the weight of the Chega and PS benches prevailing. It can be discussed within two weeks in the specialty.
From what was possible to know, the proposals regarding emergency kits, which both Livre and PAN put forward, may not be agreed with the opposition, in these cases representing greater expense for the Executive.
This Friday, the strong topic in the Plenary will be the legal criteria for patronage, with a government proposal that, among others, intends to “review the limits on the consideration, as expenses or losses for the year, of donations made under patronage, as well as the percentage increases applicable within the scope of cultural patronage, in terms of IRC and IRS.”
Chega and PS have approval proposals for the new cultural patronage statute, Livre focuses on the creation of patronage for Territorial and Social Cultural Cohesion and the Liberal Initiative on the fiscal development of the patronage regime.
In another sense, the recommendation for the formal protection of Alagoas Brancas, in Lagoa, proposed by Livre is appreciated by PS, Chega and PAN (all have proposals in this regard), and may, initially, be viable, through an agreement between the two largest opposition parties.
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