The PS-Azores on Monday accused the social-democratic leader of having “no memory or shame” for stating in relation to the Spanish elections that it is the winner who must form a government.
“Luís Montenegro has no memory or shame. How is it possible for the PSD to say that whoever wins must form a government, when that is exactly what happened in the Azores? The PSD lost in the elections. Only after the elections did it manage to govern, with the right wing, including Chega,” Berto Messias, vice president of the Socialist Party of the Azores, wrote in a note to DN
This official adds that “nothing [tem] against post-electoral coalitions.” “But we have to be consistent. Today we cannot defend one or the other when it suits us. In politics, not everything can be worthwhile,” he concludes.
The government situation in Spain today is objectively comparable to the Portuguese one in 2015, in which the PAF coalition (PSD/CDS-PP) won the elections, but without an absolute majority, as it was unable to govern because António Costa’s PS signed an unprecedented parliamentary agreement with the PCP and Bloco de Esquerdawhich became known as the “device”.
The current Spanish government, of Pedro Sánchez, is itself a left-wing solution with similar contours, albeit with more parties. It is possible that the leader of the PSOE is trying to repeat the formula, but he needs to open up party outreach even more to get the number of deputies needed to have an absolute majority.
This Monday, Luis Montenegro defended that the Spanish PP should form a government in Spain as it won Sunday’s elections, and criticized the “very unusual” case of the celebrations of those who lost them.
“I expect the government to be led by those who won the elections, because that is normal in democracy and it is normal in the Iberian Peninsula,” the social-democratic official told journalists in Funchal, as part of the “Feel Portugal” trip taking place in Madeira.
Montenegro congratulated the leader of the Spanish People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on the “overwhelming victory” won in Sunday’s elections, marking “an exponential growth in the number of seats in the Spanish parliament”.
For the PSD chairman, “it seems that this is a very unusual situation, because it seems that those who lose the election are the ones who celebrate and not the other way around”.
“I hope that the expressed will of the Spanish people can lead to the formation of a government and that this government takes office and can give Spain a cycle of development that is mirrored in Portugal,” he stressed.
With Lusa
Source: DN
