“It will be necessary to have an action plan that we have the opportunity to present to parliament. I have already asked the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister of the Presidency to start a dialogue with the parliamentary groups on this matter next week”, said Luís Montenegro.

The objective is to present contributions to design “an action plan, to be implemented immediately, that can resolve the hundreds of thousands of backlogs and that can, in the future, avoid new accumulation”.

“It is our purpose to continue to be a country that welcomes and integrates but, to provide dignity, there must be greater regulation and stop allowing the abuse of what are currently provisions contained in our legislation,” he said.

In the final part of the debate, in response to PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares, the prime minister said that the problems that exist today at AIMA (Agency for Migration and Asylum Integration) are “delicate and profound”.

“Nobody likes to see the undignified conditions in which many human beings who come to our country to work are subjected”, he lamented, adding that the long queues and delays that have occurred at AIMA generate uneasiness and feelings of insecurity.

For Montenegro, the problems registered at AIMA are “the result of several accumulated errors in border control and reception policies”.

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