PSD president Luís Montenegro defended this Wednesday that Portugal needs a prime minister with institutional acumen, reinforcing criticism of what he deemed “sulking” from António Costa in the Council of State.
“(…) Portugal needs a new government and a prime minister with a different institutional feel, with a different sense of political action, less focused on conversation, less promoted on conversation and much more committed to getting results”he said, on the sidelines of a visit to the Portuguese Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Disabled Citizens (APPACDM) in Elvas, Portalegre district.
Luís Montenegro resumed the criticism he had already voiced the night before and referred in Portalegre to the behavior of António Costa at the meeting of the Council of State that took place on Tuesday. an “institutional conflict” with the President of the Republic.
“I would like to express my concern about how the Prime Minister sees his responsibilities in the context of the Council of State primarily in terms of explaining what constitutes the act or omission of government action”he said.
Speaking to journalists, the PSD president believed that the prime minister “has every right to appreciate the actions of the president to a greater or lesser degree” and that it is “part of the rules of the game” because “everyone has his skills , each one has its functions”.
“Now, at a time when the President of the Republic has decided not to pass any legislative package [habitação]to justify his decision, a prime minister responds with the sulking silence at a meeting of the Council of State…”regretted.
For the PSD leader, this situation is “a bad symptom” given the country’s demands from politicians and holders of sovereign bodies.
In Elvas, Luís Montenegro also defended the introduction of a financial law for the social sector.
Portalegre is the 13th district elected by the President of the PSD, following the commitment he made at the 40th Congress to spend one week a month in Portugal’s various districts.
Luís Montenegro has been touring the 15 municipalities that make up the Alto Alentejo district since Sunday and ends this Thursday in Portalegre.
“The real country is completely different from Dr. Costa’s country”
The president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, believed that the figures of the European Barometer on Poverty confirm that the “real country” is “completely different” from António Costa’s “always very optimistic country”.
“There is a real country, which is completely different from the always very optimistic and always smiling country of Doctor Costa, Doctor Medina, of all those who accompany them in government”he considered, after being questioned about the results of the first European Barometer on Poverty and Insecurity, which show that one in two Portuguese workers think their salary does not cover all their expenses.
On the sidelines of a visit to the Portuguese Association of Parents and Friends of the Mentally Handicapped (APPACDM) in Elvas, in the Portalegre district, during an action that is part of the ‘Sentir Portugal’ program promoted by the PSD.
Luís Montenegro stressed that in recent months he has warned that poverty is on the rise in Portugal, a situation “proven” in this barometer, he said.
“Everything that I have denounced in Portugal in recent months, the impoverishment that we have witnessed, the leveling that is now proven in this report, which testifies precisely to this inability of people with lower incomes, who work, I repeat , working to support expenses, and also testifies to the uncertainty that exists in our labor market today.”regretted.
The report of the survey conducted by the company Ipsos stated that the situation of European workers is “very worrying, especially in Portugal and Serbia”.
‘Having a job does not necessarily mean that you can survive financially’wrote the study’s author, Etienne Mercier, in a statement, highlighting that this situation affects more than a third (36%) of European workers.
The survey, commissioned by the French non-governmental organization Secours Populaire Français, surveyed 10,000 people aged 18 or over in ten countries (Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Moldova, Portugal, Romania and Serbia). .
Nearly three in ten Europeans, including 49% of Greeks, say they are in a precarious situation, forcing them to give up certain needs, such as getting enough food or heating their home.
Due to a “difficult financial situation”, 62% of Europeans have already limited their travel and 46% have already given up heating their homes in winter, despite the cold.
Source: DN
