PSD secretary-general Hugo Soares opined on Monday that the government is “without a king or a castle”, criticizing António Costa for the policies he is developing on housing, taxation and education.
“Where is Dr. António Costa, where is Dr. António Costa, where is the Prime Minister of Portugal, faced with a concrete question about people’s lives, studied, thought, possibly a tax cut?” he said.
Hugo Soares, speaking at the opening session of the PSD Summer University, which runs until Sunday in Castelo de Vide, in the Portalegre district, noted the party’s willingness to find a solution for the housing sector and said that it will be supported by the government was rejected. , which he regretted.
“It is a matter of saying that the government really has no king or castle; it’s a matter of saying that the prime minister’s loss of authority is no longer just about what his ministers do or don’t do in certain ministries. It is also the lack of authority for public policy making,” he said.
“There are some commentators in our square who are the first to say that they don’t know anything about the leader of the opposition, that it seems that the PSD has no leader, and now no one is asking where the prime minister has gone. for more than a month, who has not a word to respond to the main concerns of the Portuguese people: where is the Prime Minister”, regretted.
Hugo Soares referred to the difficulties of young people who “go to university without being able to afford a room or housing” and the Portuguese who “pay maximum taxes”, and criticized the “minimal public services and the service of the National Health Service”. Services are closed in the summer,” accusing the prime minister of acting “in song and whistle to the side”.
For Hugo Soares, Portugal needs a Prime Minister who “doesn’t think about the people in the posters,” as the PS has spread across the country, but a Prime Minister Portugal who “thinks about the people every day.” “.
The PSD Summer University kicked off on this day, in an edition celebrating 20 years of this political education initiative, and featuring the President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the former Prime Minister Durão Barroso and the former… leader of the CDS-PP Paulo Portas.
The work ends on Sunday with an intervention by the party’s leader, Luís Montenegro, marking the PSD’s political return. This Summer University has been held since 2003 and is jointly promoted by the PSD, the JSD, the Francisco Sá Carneiro Institute and the Social Democratic Delegation of the European People’s Party.
100 young people, chosen from 350 candidates, will participate in this 19th edition. According to the university’s director, the participants were chosen considering an “age balance, between 18 and 30 years old, gender, between men and women, and geographic location, to cover the whole country”.
Source: DN
