The PS and PAN projects received votes in favour from all benches on the left, while Livre's project received abstention from the PCP and approval from the rest of the left.

The right-wing opposition to these initiatives had already been conveyed in the plenary debate this Wednesday, promoted by Livre, of the three parties' draft resolutions on the same matter.

Hugo Carneiro, from the PSD, criticised what he said was the PS's "great disorientation" and Paulo Núncio, from the CDS-PP, accused the left of being "addicted to creating new taxes".

Rui Afonso, from Chega, said that the socialists' draft resolution "is nothing more than a weak attempt to please the far left" and Mário Amorim Lopes, from IL, argued that capitalism and economic growth have driven the decline in poverty worldwide.

On the left, the parties urged the Government to join what they say is a global trend of taxing large fortunes, as a means of bridging socioeconomic inequalities.

Throughout the debate, the left recalled the intention of the G20, currently chaired by Brazil, to implement a global tax on large fortunes and the PS recalled that this measure has already been supported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel.