Pedro Santana Lopes says Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa should “seriously consider the possibility” of dissolving Parliament.
This is what the former prime minister says in an interview with Publicthat the government has reached an unacceptable course.
“What happened is too serious. We are talking about objective facts here and the responsibility has become the responsibility of the prime minister. There are so many cases, so many… a prime minister in full capacity who knows nothing… And there is the background, pushing for the nationalization of TAP, a flagship transformed into a political flag by António Costa. And it has brought this result,” he stressed.
The mayor of Figueira da Foz says the system will reach a serious level of degradation, meaning “more and more people will flee to extremist solutions” if nothing is done, recalling when then-head of state Jorge Sampaio coined the term used “episodes” to dissolve parliament when Santana Lopes ran the government.
“I’m not going to say it’s not offensive, but everything that’s going on is not comparable to what happened at the time. This is a unique case of degradation in the functioning of institutions. Dr. Jorge Sampaio used the term ‘episodes’ at the time ‘ and it was not clear what he was referring to. These are not episodes. These are serious situations,” he said.
According to the former prime minister, what is now happening with António Costa is more serious, citing, for example, the recent controversies surrounding TAP.
At the same time, Santana Lopes says that António Costa has “a duty to reflect on the situation he has reached” and that he finds it hard to believe if the current leader of the government is running for re-election.
“António Costa cannot look at this and pretend nothing happened. There is no one here who can go through this harvested vineyard like a dog. What is happening these days is very serious. Portugal needed everything but this,” said the mayor. , who guarantees to rejoin the PSD “when he can”.
On the succession of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Santana Lopes says he is focused on another term in the Chamber of Figueira da Foz, but he throws a name on the table: “I have heard a name mentioned several times, and that it would be a to be an excellent president of the republic, Leonor Beauty. It would be the first time we had a president.”
Source: DN
