The leader of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, announced on Tuesday the creation of a working group that he said he will make available to the PS and PSD to “find a path” that should facilitate the decision that the next government will take on the location will take. of the new airport.
“The decision will only be taken by the next government. What I’m trying to do is buy time. It is to now, even though we are not a government, make the assessment that my party promised to make of the technical information that has now been released,” he told journalists on Tuesday, after it became known that the technical committee’s assessment of Alcochete as indicates possible location.
Luís Montenegro assured that “if he becomes Prime Minister from March”, this will be one of the first decisions he will make. “This is choosing the location of the new airport and initiating all procedures for its implementation. Obviously with the wish that the largest opposition party in these circumstances – I expect that this should be the Socialist Party – will also be able to work with us in the adoption of this” location, advanced.
“As quickly as possible. If it is possible on the first day, it will be on the first day,” promised the chairman of the PSD, adding that the party will “today” form a working group that will “of course” make available to the social democratic structure ‘and also to the government and the Socialist Party, to be able to interact with each other and create the conditions so that, far from the debate about the election campaign, it is possible to reach consensus on a path that the next government will follow’ . will then facilitate to make the final decision”.
When asked whether the advice of the technical committee will determine the location of the new airport, which in this case would be Alcochete, as most likely, Luís Montenegro emphasized that the decision lies with the next government. “The political power does not have to accept anything, the political power has the duty to analyze and deepen the technical assessment made to make a political decision, and we will do that,” he concluded.
“If we start every day by giving our opinion on the conclusion we draw from the technical assessment that has now been sent to us, we will not create the basis that the country needs to make an informed decision. be mature, and that can be as consensual as possible. This is what I plan to do at the beginning of the government,” he concluded.
Ventura says the decision should be made by the next government, with the agreement of the four largest parties
Chega’s president opined on Tuesday that the decision on the new airport should be made by the next government through an agreement between the four largest parties, arguing that “those who have waited fifty years can wait three months”.
André Ventura called for the decision on the new airport, “whatever the recommendation of the independent technical commission, to be left to the next government and not to the government of António Costa”.
“Those who have waited fifty years can wait three months,” the Chega leader said in statements to journalists before the start of the party’s parliamentary days, which take place between Tuesday and Wednesday in Matosinhos (Porto district).
Chega’s president believed that “the four largest parties should agree on the location of the airport”, stating that “the greater the consensus on this, the more positive it is in democracy”.
André Ventura stated that there are still three months to go until the parliamentary elections and emphasized that this is a “structuring decision for the future”.
“It is a major public project, it involves very important prizes, worth several hundred million euros, and I think we have all had some governments in the final stages who have drawn up contracts and prizes to get money out to share with non-recommended companies,” he said. declared.
The Chega leader defended that the current government should not make decisions in this context and believed that “there is no point for the next governments to lead the country based on the decisions of the Socialist Party”.
André Ventura also believed that “Portela airport is a leader in terms of capacity and efficiency”, stating that “any Portela solution plus a solution involving a military airport or some kind of annex to the main airport is a transitional solution that does not solve the problems”.
“We need a new airport, it is not an appendage of Portela airport,” he stressed.
Source: DN
