"This measure that the Government announces today is part of the electoral program of the Socialist Party and, by the way, it is not included in the electoral program of the AD," stressed the president of the PS Parliamentary Group in statements to the media, noting "with appreciation" that Luís Montenegro's executive has adopted a measure that the socialists consider important.

The exclusion of children's income as a condition for access to the CSI "was not even one of the measures that the Government took advantage of the opposition's electoral programs to put in its Government program," recalled the parliamentary leader of the PS. The Socialist Party had already made a political appointment for May 24 to discuss this proposal, but "in essence, the Government played here in anticipation," he commented. It is a case to say that it is not worth the Government to complain that the Socialist Party tries to govern from Parliament, because after all the Government takes advantage of the measures of the Socialist Party", stressed Alexandra Leitão, concluding that the PS "governs even through the Government". Arguing that the proposal on the CSI "is reused at the last minute, probably with some intention of political games" on the part of the Government, the president of the socialist bench asserted that the PS "intends to get its measures approved", but "in the end the Government approves by decree-law the measures of the Socialist Party". This is one of the five measures announced by the Secretary-General of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, at the end of the debate on the Government's programme, last April. The first to be made possible was the elimination of tolls on ex-SCUT and the second was approved yesterday, in general, to increase the deduction of rents in terms of IRS to 800 euros.