PSD chairman Luís Montenegro accused the prime minister this Saturday of being “powerless” to do more for the country and standing “arms down” for Europe, serving as a “limp excuse” to present to the Portuguese.
“I believe the prime minister is with his arms down. He’s a prime minister who says he can’t go beyond what he’s been, so he already has very little to give the country.”Luís Montenegro considered, in statements to journalists, in Mangualde, Viseu.
The PSD president said he “would like to see the prime minister more motivated and mobilized as he has elections this year” and that “he was expected to be able to live up to the expectation and confidence that voters placed in him when they passed the election.” elections.” result.” they gave”.
Speaking to journalists, in Mangualde, where he completed the sixth day of the “Sentir Portugal” program, he believed that, as António Costa, five months after taking office “his arms are down and powerless to do more and he assumes he actually already has very little to offer the country.”
“Across Europe, practically all countries, practically all, to be stricter, have reduced VAT rates on electricity, gas and fuels,” added Luís Montenegro.
In this sense, he gave Spain as an example, saying that “it is enough to cross the border and verify the decisions of the Spanish government, which, by the way, is even socialist, therefore this ragged excuse of the Prime Minister is neither harvesting nor sticking the”.
“We have a government that has no ambition and we have a prime minister whose arms are down. I deeply regret that Portugal is today with this government inaction, with this near deadlock, this inability to decide,” he lamented.
And, he added, “[a incapacidade] to anticipate events, anticipate problems and solutions so that people, families and companies do not experience as much drama as they have experienced in recent days”.
Luís Montenegro recalled the “so many years” when António Costa “seated himself as one of the engines of change and transformation in Europe” and “went to Europe with that strong voice of someone who arrived and changed”.
“And now, poor thing, he looks at Europe and says: I can’t do more because Europe won’t allow me. And you say that to the Portuguese? Frankly, it’s very little for a prime minister and a government,” he pointed out. on top.
The Social Democratic leader was also asked by journalists whether the “Mobilizing Agendas for Business Innovation”, which the prime minister signed today, have a “springboard effect” for the economy, as António Costa defended today.
“Another trampoline? Another promise? Was it through PowerPoint? I haven’t seen it. Maybe it must have been. That’s not what the Portuguese want. The Portuguese want transformation,” he responded.
The PSD leader defended that “the mobilizing agendas are the engine of transformation, but” [os portugueses] want this done, they don’t want proclamations, they don’t want announcements”.
“We are dealing with a government that likes to advertise, that likes to show off, really likes to brag,” he accused, and despite acknowledging that “the lines of credit are important,” he defended that “they, especially credit” and “are not direct aid that the government provides to companies”.
After five months in office, he stressed, “there is certainly so much hopelessness in the country, but especially within the government and within its leadership”, which in his opinion gives Luís Montenegro “even more strength” and “even more conviction”. for the PSD “to be the political alternative to rule the country”.
Source: DN
