The Secretary General of the PSD asked this Saturday “who the PS is to teach stability lessons”, emphasizing that the current government with an absolute majority had fourteen resignations, “fell apart” and António Costa recommended “some modesty”.
Speaking to journalists in Lisbon, in the middle of the PS National Commission, the Socialist Secretary General, António Costa, opined that “the right offers an alternative to instability”, noting that “a right-wing arithmetic parliamentary majority that depends of Chega will never exist”. a governing majority”.
In conversation with the Lusa agency: Hugo Soares responded to these words of António Costa, saying that “if the matter were not serious and the country did not live as it lives, you would laugh about it”.
“A government with an absolute majority that has had fourteen resignations and has fallen apart… Who is the PS to teach anyone stability lessons? Some decorum is needed in political life, and Dr. António Costa should approach this phase with some modesty should go into effect,” he said.
Hugo Soares said that the PSD has already been “so clear” about the rejection of a possible coalition or post-electoral deal with Chega that “only Dr. António Costa has not yet realized that, and moreover that the whole country has already understood it.”
Asked about António Costa saying that the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic was “completely unreasonable and unnecessary”, Hugo Soares replied that “no one in the country would consider that there is any other option than to give the people a voice” . .
“The climate of institutional degradation and impoverishment of people and families is such that only clarification can put an end to this conflict that exists in the country,” he argued.
Hugo Soares also expressed “great concern” about “recent statements, which were also known today by senior PS leaders, about the political situation”, arguing that socialists must determine whether they are “for the principle of the separation of powers” or if they intend to “interfere with justice.”
“We respect the presumption of innocence in the PSD, but we also respect the free investigation of the Public Prosecution Service, and we cannot admit that the PS wants to legalize these elections,” he stated.
The general secretary of the PSD claimed that during today’s meeting of the PS National Commission there were senior party leaders who “criticized the Public Prosecutor’s Office”, citing the interview with RTP3 by the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, asking for swift justice in the case involving António Costa.
“The parties that built the democratic constitutional state and democracy must fight, fight and defend the separation of powers, and I make this appeal to the PS: do not make these elections legal,” he said.
Hugo Soares opined that the government is “against doctors, against teachers, against judicial officials, against security forces, against the President of the Republic and now against justice.”
“The country needs peace, trust and hope, and the PSD asks the PS to no longer contribute to the deterioration of political, social and economic conditions in Portugal,” he stressed.
In his statements to the media today, Costa believed that in order to prevent the President of the Republic from being forced into another dissolution of Parliament, “it is essential that the right does not have a majority in the Assembly of the Republic,” since Chega “will be a permanent factor of instability”.
The Prime Minister also left another message, this one addressed to the PSD: “Let no one think that concluding an agreement with Chega and having a majority in the Assembly of the Republic will create the conditions for governability.”
“It does not create it. On the contrary, it is a factor of enormous ungovernability,” he insisted.
Source: DN
