Last Tuesday, IL pointed to “signs of absolute disintegration” in the government and accused António Costa of “utter incompetence” in his team’s management, noting that in just eight months as executive, a minister and six secretaries of state have already left.
“A minister and six secretaries of state have already left this government in just eight months with an absolute majority, but the signs of absolute disintegration do not stop there, as situations of lack of coordination return,” IL writes in a statement sent to the Lusa- bureau on the changes in the PS manager known today, with exits, entrances and changes in the portfolios of secretaries of state.
Recalling a number of cases of this government, the party led by João Cotrim Figueiredo concluded that “it is more than a lack of coordination, it is António Costa’s total incompetence in managing his team that makes this succession of cases the weakened government and the institutions”.
“The absolute majority of the PS has turned into absolute uselessness for solving the country’s problems,” criticizes IL.
Among the examples of government affairs, liberals refer to the fact that minister Pedro Nuno Santos “was publicly humiliated and neither resigned nor was fired” or minister Ana Abrunhosa who “remained in office even after her husband received public funds, which are under surveillance by the minister himself.
“Minister António Costa e Silva was publicly disavowed by the Finance Minister and by two of his secretaries of state (now acquitted),” he says, adding also the appointment by the prime minister “of the deputy secretary of state who was already accused in two trials when he entered the government”.
The Prime Minister changed two of the three Secretaries of State under the Ministry of Economy and chose António Mendonça Mendes as his Deputy Secretary of State.
The President of the Republic has today accepted the Prime Minister’s proposals for the appointment of two new Finance Ministers, Nuno Félix in Fiscal Affairs and Alexandra Reis in the Treasury.
Source: DN
