The Minister of the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs, Luís Marques Guedes, took on Monday that the recovery in the birth rate in Portugal is a “national cause” and left the appeal for partisan consensus that precede the thematic debate to be held in April and to which the parliamentary groups have already committed.
“I really hope to have walked to a consensus of space, especially by different political parties, as the priority to give birth policies,” said Marques Guedes in Viseu during a seminar entitled The birth crisis and the future of the country:. have answers
The minister called for a “collective effort” for a common working base is found allowing “a sustainable strategy above changes the exercise of political power” and for a cause it considers to be “a national problem.”
“The search for compromises to resolve problems that are national is a mode with very few supporters and even fewer practitioners in Portuguese politics, but it is a culture that we need to reverse, “argued the minister. “If nothing is done, we walked for a shrinking of the Portuguese nation in about one-third by 2050 and, in a context like this, in short, medium term, we are faced with the unsustainability of the welfare state as we know it and to enhance a dramatic conflict between generations, “he said.
Also Joaquim Azevedo, who chaired the Independent Commission for one Birth Policy and prepared the report requested by the PSD last year, said in the same seminar, which is Portugal with a problem “very serious” hands on “and which we must respond with” urgency “
The author of the report For a Portugal friend of children, families and birth:. 2015-2035 returned to warn that the welfare state model may be concerned.
“The situation is too serious, but the majority of people are unaware of the seriousness of the situation for the future. All this clearly commits the kind of life we have built over these 40 years and the survival of the welfare state model of “he lamented.
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