The Social Democratic leader, Luís Montenegro, said this Sunday that the characteristic of socialist governance of “people in the service of the state” is the opposite of Francisco Sá Carneiro’s political vision that gave rise to the PSD.
The President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Luís Montenegro, the Mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas, the former Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes and the Vice President of the CDS-PP Telmo Correia were some of the political figures present today at the mass in memory of Francisco Sá Carneiro and Adelino Amaro da Costa, at the Basilica da Estrela, in Lisbon, on the 42nd anniversary of their deaths in an aviation disaster.
“This is always a very special day, when we have the opportunity to conjure up our founder and our inspiration Francisco Sá Carneiro, one who, from a doctrinal, ideological point of view, has led us to a conception of political activity in which the state gives to the people at the service of the people and not the other way around, people at the service of the state, that is a characteristic that has characterized the PS administration in Portugal in recent years,” the PSD leader told journalists after leaving mass.
In Sá Carneiro’s view, according to Montenegro, “people should have the freedom to choose their future, to choose what they want to do with their lives and the state should always pay back and give more to citizens than what they ask for.”
“That was the personalist and humanistic essence of Francisco Sá Carneiro’s political vision, it was at the birth of the PSD and that at this time we are revisiting to be inspired, to prepare to give the country a new government, a new path, a new ambition for us to stop staying on this route of poverty that has unfortunately marked Portugal in recent years,” he said.
For the CDS-PP, Telmo Correia believed that remembering and evoking the memory of Sá Carneiro and Amaro da Costa “is important because many young people and the new generations don’t know” who these two “central figures” were.
“Without them, the country probably would not have come out of the socialist threat, the threat of a closed, even dictatorial regime. is that allowed and has it paved the way for a democratic country and a liberal society,” he stressed.
More than four decades later and “I don’t know how many parliamentary committees of inquiry have passed”, Telmo Correia lamented that the deaths of both of them and their companions who were on the plane “is a story that has never been fully told”.
“The country that Sá Carneiro and Amaro da Costa dreamed of and yearned for was not fulfilled and that is why they died many years ago. Their memory remains, but their dream and ambition of a more democratic, liberal country, with more initiative, with more wealth, is far from being fulfilled,” he lamented.
Montenegro criticizes ISP increase as “unfair measure” with “double tax effect”
Montenegro also criticized the increase in the tax on petroleum products (ISP) as it is an “unfair measure” and has had a “double fiscal effect”.
“Since the beginning of this spiral of rising fuel prices, we have remembered that one of the first measures the PS government took when it took office seven years ago was to increase the ISP,” he criticized in statements he made when he left the Basílica da. Estrela.
For the leader of the PSD, this is “an unfair measure, a measure that affects everyone equally, a measure that affects not only ordinary citizens but also the business dynamics of the economy”.
“What’s happened over the past year is that the successive ISP increases have a double tax effect: it’s this tax that’s going up and it’s the VAT that’s going up on the price that includes this tax,” he said.
The PSD, according to its leader, “should have urged the government many times to take measures to reduce the ISP” and “propose a reduction in VAT on fuels and energy”.
“Unfortunately, the government’s path has always been this and, as Francisco Sá Carneiro just said when he defined the social-democratic matrix of the PSD, the main goal for the state was to serve the citizens and for the state to citizens more.” than she asks. Well, it’s the exact opposite of what the PS is doing today,” he compared.
In the analysis of Montenegro, the PS “deprives citizens of most of the wealth they create, deprives businesses of most of the wealth they create, and in return offers the abandonment of essential public services, as the Portuguese unfortunately feel today in health, education, access to culture, sport”🇧🇷
The journalists also questioned the PSD chairman about the euthanasia process, and the PSD leader assured that he will speak on the subject this week. When asked about even defending the referendum, Montenegro said only that he is not one to “change his beliefs”, but nothing else helped.
Source: DN
