The parliamentary leader of the PSD, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, who will be appointed the future Minister of Finance of Luís Montenegro if he becomes Prime Minister after the parliamentary elections on March 10, pointed to the PSD as the only valid alternative to the “route of impoverishment” in which socialist government Portugal has placed.
According to Miranda Sarmento; “every other vote, both on our right and on our left, continues in practice to vote for the PS”. The parliamentary leader reiterated one of the messages from Luís Montenegro’s speech at the start of the proceedings of the 41st PSD Congress, saying that it was “a lame excuse” to repeat that António Costa resigned over a paragraph restricting his executive power “collapsed inside”.
The Social Democratic parliamentary leader appealed to voters who gave the PS an absolute majority in the 2022 parliamentary elections, saying the PSD-led alternative “suits many moderate socialists.” Precisely those who defend a market economy with social interests, a lower tax burden, a society based on meritocracy and a better state capable of responding to the problems of the Portuguese.
“We have not resigned ourselves to a poor country, with low wages, insecure jobs and young people forced to emigrate to have a better future,” said Miranda Sarmento, for whom it is necessary to “resist Mexicanization, or better said, Venezuelanization. of the PS’. In other words: consolidating the power of the party that will be led by Pedro Nuno Santos, José Luís Carneiro or Daniel Adrião from the direct elections on December 15 and 16.
Source: DN
