Pedro Nuno Santos hitched a ride with António Costa, who had spoken before him, praising the Socialist government and criticizing the PSD’s position and policies.
“The right would not have raised the national minimum wage, would not have invested in the SNS, would have left the housing problem to the market, would have ignored the problem of fiscal justice. Instead of a country for everyone we would be a country of losers and winners. Today, from a discursive point of view, what distinguishes the PSD from Chega is not enough. Passos Coelho insulted today [terça-feira]the Portuguese Prime Minister, but eight years ago the majority of the Portuguese people rejected his government”said the new Secretary General of the PS.
The candidate for the premiership also recalled the times of construction. “We reached an agreement that they in Portugal and in the PS thought was impossible. The initiative came from António Costa, thanks to him. Fantastic years, which have marked me as a politician. It was just the beginning of a fantastic journey .”recalls Pedro Nuno Santos, who says that the PS project is “unfinished because the social democratic project is by nature unfinished.”
Often criticized for failing to solve housing problems, the former minister says that “all of Europe has housing problems, whether countries are governed by the left or the right.” “For decades it was believed that the market regulated the situation. We made the largest public investment ever and wanted to mobilize private investment. We don’t have to start all over again.”he emphasized, while also criticizing Luís Montenegro’s position regarding the decision on the location of Lisbon’s new airport.
Source: DN
