PS leadership candidate Pedro Nuno Santos on Tuesday deemed it essential to close the airport file and make a decision on its location, arguing that “done is better than perfect.”
“I want our country to move forward and not keep picking up the pace. We have already wasted too much time deciding on the location of the airport and that is why I want and hope that this chapter will be closed once and for all. that we continue with the works “he stated, before adding that the country, being peripheral, needs an airport infrastructure that would allow the connection between the Americas and Europe.
Pedro Nuno Santos, speaking on the sidelines of a meeting with PS/Madeira activists in Funchal, referred to the fact that the Independent Technical Commission (CTI) responsible for the strategic environmental assessment for increasing airport capacity in the Lisbon region identified Alcochete as the most cost-effective solution for the new airport, between the two viable options (Alcochete and Vendas Novas), according to the report released on Tuesday.
The option involving the Alcochete Shooting Field is identified as the one with the most benefits, of the two feasible solutions for an intercontinental “hub” (airport functioning as a flight distribution platform), according to the report published on the commission’s website . (CTI).
“In Portugal we often confuse impulsiveness with decisiveness, because in Portugal we drag on too much and thus harm national development”said Pedro Nuno Santos.
However, the PS leadership candidate regretted that there had always been one in the country “good reason to postpone another day, listen to someone else, do another study”stressing that Portugal will only emerge from the “lopsided tension” if it is able to make decisions and move forward.
“As the people say, done is better than perfect”he said, and then reinforced: “It is time for us to close this file quickly.”
Pedro Nuno Santos, on the other hand, criticized PSD leader Luís Montenegro for announcing that the party will create an internal working group to analyze the report of the independent technical commission.
“What we need is to get used to making decisions. There are no perfect decisions, there are no decisions without criticism. This cannot make us paralyzed. We have to move forward.”he declared, ensuring that no more internal working groups would be set up in the PS to reflect on and study the report.
Source: DN
