Luís Montenegro argues that the Portuguese value the party’s ability to remain “united and cohesive” and appealed during the session not to squander this capital.
At the end of Luís Montenegro’s intervention at the meeting of the parliamentary group, which takes place behind closed doors, there was no applause from the deputies present.
After some recent episodes of tension between the parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, and the bank, the PSD chairman stressed the importance of the work of the parliamentary group for the party, especially in recent proposals on health.
“The leadership of the parliamentary group need not be out of step with the leadership of the party and the party need not be out of step with the direction of the parliamentary group,” Montenegro said, according to information provided to Agência. Lusa.
Furthermore, he admitted that “it’s possible that not everything works smoothly”, eventually pointing out that an effort is being made to “keep this connection and interaction very, very close”, as this has been noted by the Portuguese.
“The people out there” expect the PSD to present itself as “united and cohesive”, Montenegro stressed.
“This point is appreciated, understood, but it is a long and complex process. We must not waste it, and it would not be good for anyone if we squandered this capital that we have managed to accumulate so far,” he stressed. , as this contrasts with the climate of “confusion” you live in the PS government area.
PSD is “closely linked” to the creation of the SNS
The PSD chairman also said this Thursday that the party is “closely linked” to the creation of the SNS, differentiates itself from the PS by defending its connection to the private sector and the social sector, and wants to standardize family health model units in the country ‘B’.
“Contrary to what is often claimed, the PSD is closely linked to the creation of the SNS and to providing the conditions that have made it work all these years,” Luís Montenegro said during a visit to the health center of Algueirão Mem- Martins, in the municipality of Sintra, in Lisbon.
After being questioned about his attendance at the PSD parliamentary group meeting, the leader of the Social Democrats said the party is “experiencing times of unity and cohesion”, despite some “differences of opinion” within the parliamentary bench, which contrast with the Government’s “problems of discord and disagreement”.
“The contrast between the cohesion and unity of the PSD and the problems of division and misunderstanding in the government is very great,” he defended.
Luís Montenegro also believed that “if there is one thing that this first year in office of this political leadership and president of the PSD can confirm, it is that the PSD is living times of unity and cohesion, within a diversity of opinions that is typical, that is traditional and that is even the prerogative of our party”.
In addition, the leader of the Social Democrats used 1979 as a reference and said that since then “the PSD has a vision that the SNS must work with the contribution, of course, structurally, with the mainstay, of equipment and state professionals, but with the contribution of the private sector and now also of the social sector, which at the time did not have the same projection as it does today”,
“And today, as in 1979, we continue in the same line of thought, I would venture to say that today with more intensity what was our idea, the idea that distinguished us from the PS at that first moment, is presented as absolutely crucial to this bottleneck to resolve where the SNS is due to its inability to attract and retain staff,” he insisted.
At the last stop of a tour that started this week under the theme of health, this afternoon ends with a debate in parliament organized by the PSD in which five recommendations from the Social Democrats to the executive will be discussed and voted on, the chairman of the PSD defends the nationwide institution of ‘B’ model Family Health Units.
“What we recommend is that the establishment of ‘B’ model family health units can be standardized across the country, which have managerial flexibility, performance reward mechanisms, which generate greater capacity to retain health care workers, particularly physicians, but not just nurses and technical assistants “, he emphasized.
Source: DN
