"The Major Choices 2025-2029 Act" is "a strategic, coherent, and focused vision to guide public action in the next four years", said the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Carlos Abreu Amorim when presenting the draft bill in Parliament.

Abreu Amorim claimed that "this is not a catalogue of intentions. This is a plan, architecture, and commitment. It is the way in which Portugal chooses to respond to the major challenges of the present and prepare the country for the future".

The Minister listed the "ten pillars that represent the public action’s strucutral dimensions: income, State, economy, immigration, essential services, security and justice, housing, infrastructure, water, and defence":

1. The first pillar "declares an unequivocal principle: work must pay". Accordingly, it cuts income tax for the middle classes, increases wages and pensions, creates the conditions to retain talent, and values savings as a pillar for households’ future safety. It fights the poverty traps and simplifies social contributions", he said.

2. The second pillar, "the most transformational", is "the State reform and fight against red tape" to "overcome the culture of stamping, the infinitive prior opinion, the redundant requirements and the endless deadlines" because "public administration is the backbone of democracy" and "reforming the State is making it stronger"

3. The third pillar "takes economic growth as the base of sovereignty". "It is a vision centred around added value, productivity, and the technological transition", as "this is the only way for Portugal to meet its goal of growing above European average"

4. The fourth pillar "faces a real challenge: managing migration flows with humanity, yet also rigour" via a "balanced, conscientious policy guided towards national interest".  As such, "Portugal will continue to be an open country" but not "an unregulated country"

5. The fifth pillar "is centred around health, education, culture, sports, and mobility" with a simple aim: "essential services need to work for everyone with quality and proximity" because "all these services are social and territorial cohesion pillars"

6. The sixth pillar "reaffirms priority given to security and safety and the rule of law" in a "commitment to public trust and the country’s democratic health", "investing in proximity law enforcement, technology, preventing juvenile crime, responding to domestic violence, cybersecurity, and boosting law enforcement agencies’ operational capabilities"

7. The seventh pillar is dedicated to facing the "greatest social crisis of the decade: housing" so that the "the Government can simplify licensing, reduce taxes on construction, use public estate, support accessible renting, and foster integrated urban development"

8. The eighth pillar includes "decisions that had been postponed for decades": the new airport, high-speed rail, modernising ports, boosting energy and digital networks, and the national coordination of public investment". "This pillar is perhaps the most decisive for positioning Portugal in the next generation", he said

9. The ninth pillar "assumes upfront the climate urgency: water security, resilience, storage, specialised management, restoring ecosystems, and preparing for extreme events", "a future and survival policy"

10. The tenth pillar "responds to the global context: a multipolar, unstable, competitive world", to "bring forward the 2% of GDP NATO pledge, boost military capabilities, invest in defence industry, update cyberdefence and prepare the country for future crisis", to "protect Portugal in an unsafe world".