Conflicts, lots of conflicts. The socialist majority on Thursday saw itself cruelly qualified by the president of the republic – “tired” and “overheated” at being elected after only six years in office – but resisted the temptation of an emotional response.
“The ability to hear both references to things getting better, as well as references to things to be overcome, is the impetus for us to keep going,” said Socialist deputy Porfírio Silva, also a member of the Permanent Commission, the executive body of more limited dome in the socialist organic.
“We hope that it will remain possible to continue to respond to this judgment: keep filling the glass, that the glass will become fuller and that in these circumstances more and more water will come for the Portuguese.”
In other words, the president did in the RTP/Public which marked his seven years in office, “an interesting and balanced analysis of the country”, showing “that the country has faced significant externally imposed challenges – the pandemic, the war”, with “the idea that there is a climate of uncertainty prevails in relation to what happens every day, which is an important factor in governance”. “We hope that it will remain possible to continue to respond to this assessment: keep filling the glass, that the glass will become fuller and that more and more water will come to the Portuguese in these circumstances,” said the socialist parliamentarian (and the reference to the glass stems from the fact that Marcelo said that António Costa sees things more from the “glass half full” side, while he sees things from the “glass half empty”) side.
On the right, the PSD took advantage of the president’s interview to attack the government. Paulo Rangel, MEP and deputy leader of the party, believed that when Marcelo spoke of a “warmed up” majority, he was “expressing a very strong criticism of the government and from which the Prime Minister should draw consequences”.
“If IL maintains this record of absolute intransigence, there is only one solution: PSD and Chega together manage to form an absolute majority and shut IL out.”
According to Rangel, the PR’s analysis of problems with TAP or the application of PRR funds “shows that we are really dealing with an exhausted majority.” “The words with which the President of the Republic opened the interview say everything about the situation in the country: a heated majority, a tired majority. This sums up the whole interview,” he said.
Chega leader André Ventura gave the PR “reason” when he said there is an arithmetic but no political majority on the right, due to the inability of the Liberal Initiative and Chega to understand each other. “No other party has done what we have done in saying there must be an alternative. The PR said what it said a month ago: I urged the two leaders on the right to [necessidade de] give the president an alternative,” he said. Concluding, “If IL maintains this record of absolute intransigence, there is only one solution: PSD and Chega together manage to form an absolute majority, allowing IL to get out be left.”
Source: DN
