The PSD secretary general accused the prime minister on Tuesday of being “muddled in contradictions and lost in what should be the art of good governance”, which is akin to a “car going the wrong way on the highway” .
Speaking to Lusa, Hugo Soares opined that António Costa, in the interview with TVI and CNN on Monday evening, gave the feeling of “living in a country that is not the country where the Portuguese live” and “forgetting that he is the first – minister eight years ago.”
“He was serious and honest, he said he was not the prime minister of doctors, teachers and, even ironically, journalists. But doctors, journalists, teachers, court officials and security forces are Portuguese and concrete people who want to see your problems. dissolved”criticized the social democratic leader.
Asked about the Prime Minister’s criticism of the PSD’s proposal to fully restore teachers’ service time – Costa said this was “unsustainable for the country” – the PSD Secretary General believed that two alternatives were “absolutely were clear”.
“The first is that of the government, of disrespect for teachers, of not valuing public schools and which goes well with more than 90,000 students without a teacher to teach a subject at the beginning of the school year”he said.
On the other hand, he countered, there is the alternative of the PSD “which made the choice to adopt the valorization of public schools as a priority and to “give back authority and respect for teachers”, but “maintain respect for the right accounts”stating that the party refuses to receive lessons from the PS in this area.
Hugo Soares defended that the PSD proposal is “credible and feasible” and reiterated that if the values of this recovery are those that have been made public – between 250 and 300 million euros – the party proposes to achieve this recovery of service within in full, in five years, at a rate of 20% per year.
In the part of the interview on housing, Hugo Soares regretted that the Prime Minister had expressed his disagreement with the President of the Republic, the opposition parties and all actors in the sector, and only stood “alongside” those who had spoken out in the past. this week.
“This is not centre-left or centre-right, it is utter hypocrisy. All he had to do was pick up a flag and take to the streets to demonstrate against the government.”he joked, wondering whether Costa did not realize that this demonstration was against the executive branch “which he himself leads”.
“The Prime Minister is mired in a series of contradictions and is absolutely lost in what the art of good governance should be”he complained, referring to the title of the most recent book by the former President of the Republic, Prime Minister and leader of the PSD, Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
Source: DN
