The president of the Liberal Initiative (IL) said on Saturday that the party is not waiting “for anyone’s solutions” and challenged those committed to Portugal’s future to follow the path the liberals want to follow.
“We have always been very fast, we are the party of ambition, the party of the future and we do not wait for anyone’s solutions,” Rui Rocha told journalists at the beginning of the party marking the party’s political return . , which takes place today in the fortress of Armação de Pera, in the Algarve.
Asked if there could be a common path with the PSD and if the challenge to transform Portugal also extends to social democrats, Rui Rocha replied: “Of course it is also a challenge for the PSD, because we were right and we have been faster than the PSD, we have had more ambition than the PSD”.
The president of IL expected that during his intervention at the party’s official “rentrée”, at a party with music and an open-air dinner, he will present 10 commitments for Portugal, for the horizon of a decade, in areas such as water, agriculture and the primary sector, housing and taxes.
“We are moving forward, we are going to make our proposals and we are challenging everyone who is committed to the future of the country, to transform the country so that they join, that they follow the liberal initiative, that they follow this speed, follow this will we have to transform the country,” he said.
Emphasizing that IL’s path is “very clear”, Rui Rocha reiterated that one of the solutions to change the country is to lower the tax burden, because “whoever shakes the tree gets most of the result of shaking the tree should keep, not it could be the government, the state, which gets more than those who shake the tree”.
“In many cases we are moving forward, we are moving forward quickly and then they come to agree with us. This happened with TAP, this is happening with cutting taxes. Today many people, many parties are already talking about cutting taxes, we have always been there, from day one, saying that this tax burden determined the future of the country,” he concluded.
“The alternative is liberal” is the motto of IL’s political ‘rentrée’, culminating in Rui Rocha’s speech, scheduled for 21:45.
Source: DN
