The PSD’s parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, this Friday found that the article by the former President of the Republic of the Republic Cavaco Silva, published in the Público newspaper, is “very important”, following the criticism expressed by the Prime Minister ” lack of authority”.
Speaking to the Assembly of the Republic, Miranda Sarmento said the article is “very important for the country to think about” and “warns about the behavior of the administration and the future of the country”.
Miranda Sarmento distinguished the two axes and began by emphasizing that, regarding the future of the country, Cavaco Silva points to “the lack of structural reforms that prevent the country from growing from an economic point of view and restoring positions that in the meantime, sank, almost running to last place from the point of view of the 27” table.
“Professor Cavaco Silva reiterates that the government must implement structural reforms to increase the competitiveness and productivity of the Portuguese economy,” he stressed.
As for the management of the administration, the Social Democratic parliamentary leader emphasized that Cavaco Silva “is launching warnings that it is necessary for the government to coordinate itself, that the government is on a course and that the government is in fact starting a government without cases, without lack of coordination and with a well-defined political orientation”.
When asked whether the PSD, like Cavaco Silva, also believes that the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, should have been fired, Miranda Sarmento emphasized that the former head of state “listed a series of examples to show what the lack of authority and lack of guidance from the Prime Minister”.
“Government leadership and politics belong to the Prime Minister. And that’s why things arise, but whoever lacks authority and leadership and coordination is the Prime Minister,” the accused accused.
When asked whether, given the frequency of public interventions by Cavaco Silva, the former head of state is not “taking space for the opposition”, Miranda Sarmento replied: “On the contrary”.
“The extraordinary experience that Professor Cavaco Silva has, both from an academic and political point of view – he was Minister of Finance, Prime Minister and President of the Republic for ten years – is a voice for the country to warn us of the structural problems that the country has he defended.
Miranda Sarmento reiterated that Cavaco Silva’s article also warns of “the bad governance” the country has had “over the past seven years and especially these last six months, in which a government with an absolute majority would have to change course.” and other coordination that it unfortunately does not have”.
In these statements to journalists, Miranda Sarmento was also asked about the annual inflation rate of the consumer price index (CPI), which rose to 9.3% in September, according to data released by INE today, from 8.9%. In August.
According to the Social Democratic parliament speaker, the data shows that the country still has a “serious inflation problem, which the PSD has been warning about since the beginning of the year and even before the start of the war in Ukraine”. “.
“It is important that the government uses the tools it has to support lower-income families on the one hand, but also the middle class, because, as I said, families are under a persistent double: on the one hand, inflation with the rise in prices. of goods and services; on the other hand, (…) the rise in interest rates and the rise in mortgage payments,” he said.
Source: DN
