The PSD chairman said this Thursday that many of those who gave the PS an absolute majority in parliamentary elections “are already regretting today” the “lack of government capacity” of the executive led by António Costa.
Luís Montenegro, speaking at a dinner with militants and supporters in Pinhel, Guarda, as part of the “Sentir Portugal” initiative, said he respects the Portuguese who “gave the PS a great opportunity”, but admitted that “many of these people are already regretting today”.
“I respect everyone. I respect all politicians and all parties and I especially respect all the Portuguese who went to vote in the last elections and who gave the PS a great chance. I respect people and I will not tell you that people made a mistake when voting in January 2022,” he said.
And continued: What I want to tell you now, and I have no room to be wrong, is that many of these people already regret it today, because they have many reasons to have been disappointed and disillusioned with the lack of government capacity and with the social insensitivity of the government that we have in Portugal”.
In his speech, he mentioned several problems that currently exist in the country and that Portugal suffers from a problem that “will have to be dealt with head-on”, related to European rules.
“We have already realized that Dr. António Costa and the PS do not know that it exists, which I do not believe, or that then they do not have the political will to solve it. We, in Portugal, are more Papists than the Pope “, he said.
He added that the European rules are “sometimes already confusing” and “sometimes go too far in regulation, but the Portuguese government must always, with the hands of the PS, put in more rules, more confusion, more bureaucracy, so that people cannot take what is legitimate”, which is to take advantage of the funds that Europe allocates to Portugal to get closer to the more developed countries.
“We are going to change Portugal and we are going to give the Portuguese more quality of life, more well-being”
“That is why today we are increasingly lagging behind Europe. That is why the countries of the East are growing two, three, four and five times more than us. It is the countries similar to us that receive funds equal to us and who are much closer to Europe than we are,” Montenegro said at the dinner that the party said brought together about 500 PSD militants and supporters from Guarda district.
The PSD leader also stated that he is privileged to have a “great army” with him, considering the support he has received from the people he has interacted with.
“I’m going to keep feeling Portugal. I’m going to go to all regions of the country and talk to as many people as possible,” he guaranteed.
Then he quoted Sá Carneiro saying: “‘We started with being a few, today we are many and tomorrow we will be millions’. We will really be millions. . We are going to keep them here in this country of from us, so that they do not have to emigrate in search of better conditions”.
During the same dinner, the president of the PSD district of Guarda, Carlos Condesso, predicted that “the Portuguese people will bring Luís Montenegro and the PSD a great victory”.
Rui Ventura, leader of the PSD council in Pinhel and mayor, said he believed the country would have a new prime minister “whose name is Luís Montenegro” who “wants only to serve his country”.
Source: DN
