The president of the republic defended this Tuesday that the government is expected to be an “absolute majority of work”, taking advantage of European funds and lasting until the end of the legislature, without entering into “internal dissolution”.
Speaking to journalists during a session of the program “Músicos no Palácio de Belém”, in the former royal arena in Lisbon, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa pointed to the end of the second absolute majority of the PSD led by Cavaco Silva, in the 1990s, as an example that cannot be followed: “That majority was exhausted, it was about to be European elections”.
At the time, the ruling party “lost the European elections, there was no dissolution of parliament, the majority formally stood, but it was dead,” the head of state said, adding: “What we want now is an absolute majority other than that. “
The current absolute majority of the PS is expected “to use the resources in this decisive year and thus be able to be the engine of an economic recovery that benefits from the 2022 figures and projects for the future. and thus a dynamism that will enable us to overcome the outcome of the European elections, whatever that may be,” he said.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, speaking about the interview that the Prime Minister, António Costa, gave to RTP on Monday evening, divided the absolute majorities into “in name and work” and others that “of a certain At that time, they were just in name, because they have emptied themselves, because they have become tired, because they have moved from the countryside”.
Using a phrase used by António Costa in that interview, he considered that “the function of the President of the Republic is to help the Government not to stand in the way of the absolute majority who are no longer nominally a absolute majority is at work.” also”.
“I think this is the situation we’re in: we want there to be a legislature that’s fulfilled and we want it to be a majority, not just in name, but in work,” he said.
May it be “years of strong absolute majority and not of absolute majority that, even without dissolution, disintegrate into internal dissolution,” he stressed.
Source: DN
