The PSD president defended on Monday that Portugal’s next government cannot be held hostage by extremism, neither right nor left, and stressed that people should not fear the PSD.
“I believe it is very good for Portugal that the next government is not hostage to extremism and we must ensure that there is no ‘apparatus’ 2.0 on the horizon compared to the original one from 2015,” Luís Montenegro said at a meeting of activists in Albufeira, in the Faro district.
For the PSD leader, the original ‘apparatus’ that lasted “eight years, first accompanied and then alone, is responsible for the impoverishment of the country, with nationalizing and stubborn policies from an ideological point of view”.
On the other hand, he emphasized, people “do not have to fear the PSD, because it is the party of the positive transformation of their lives, a party of non-conformity, free enterprise, regulation and social care.”
“Even in areas where they try to give us the bad reputation of a more aggressive attitude, it is necessary to make it clear to people that the PSD was the party that promoted the largest pension increase in Portugal, which was the fourteenth month,” concluded by the governments of Professor Cavaco Silva,” he noted.
Luís Montenegro assured that he will not become prime minister “on the day he has to reduce his pension and it is not worth scaring people with that.”
In the speech closing the first day of the Sentir Portugal no Algarve initiative, Luís Montenegro stated that the country is entering an electoral period that is “the exclusive responsibility of the Socialist Party, a party that, in its third consecutive term of office, has an absolute majority, managed to defeat so much confidence he received from the voters”.
“It is truly remarkable how circumstances that are absolutely extraordinary are thrown away in order to do good things,” he pointed out.
After criticizing the socialist government, “with several problems facing the country” in the areas of national healthcare, education, housing and high tax burden, Montenegro promised that if the PSD becomes government, “some blocked would value careers and give hope to young people.” people and withdraw a number of measures approved by the PS.
According to Luis Montenegro, the PS government has “disrupted all conditions for investment in Portugal”, improving the ability of companies to stimulate development and thus retain young people.
“None of us until this week caused the mess that the government was involved in. The government fell this week because of everything that had happened so far, this was the final straw,” he stressed.
Luís Montenegro also said that “the PS’s despair is total every day, because even today there is the resignation of a member of the government who said two days ago that he would not leave under any circumstances”.
“Bad governance is also the responsibility of those who have followed the government in recent years. In fact, listening to some people makes it seem like they haven’t been at the table to discuss and decide for the past eight years,” he said.
Addressing the activists, Montenegro recalled that “today it is in the hands of the party” to make Portugal change its government.
“This is what we have to do today until March 10 [de 2024]” he concluded.
Portugal will hold snap parliamentary elections on March 10, 2024, scheduled by the president of the republic, following the Prime Minister’s resignation on Tuesday.
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Source: DN
