Luís Montenegro criticized António Costa’s performance during this Thursday’s debate at the Assembly of the Republic, where he once again heard about the… “devil”, a term referred to by Pedro Passos Coelho to anticipate a financial crisis in July 2016.
“The Prime Minister got involved in the affairs of the government and presented the theory of the devil again, but at the moment the devil is in the government. Either the government changes life or the Portuguese will want to change the government”said the leader of the PSD.
In particular, Montenegro criticized António Costa’s proposal to set up a circuit to check who is invited to the government. “The good news of today’s debate is that the Prime Minister will propose a circuit of control for those invited to the government. He expects that he will continue to have problems and it is a lack of accountability. He wants the President of the Republic to be held accountable system is absurd, that the prime minister does not react to the choices he makes”creased.
The chairman of the Social Democrats again said that the finance minister “has no authority” and is “a dead weight in the government” and underlined the words of the president of the republic on the matter involving the new secretary of state for agriculture , whose joint accounts with her husband were seized, referring to him as a “negative charge”. “If I had been prime minister, I would not have invited anyone under these circumstances,” he stressed.
Montenegro also justified the PSD’s abstention in the motion of censure against the government tabled by the Liberal Initiative. “It is not because of the affairs or policies of the government that we want a third act of election in three years. We respect the judgment of the people, who spoke less than a year ago. Government, the government has not reached a year in position”he explained, though he assured that he is “prepared to run for election”.
Source: DN
