PSD President Luís Montenegro defended this Monday that PS and Chega are “increasingly together” as both show “unpreparedness, lightness and immaturity” and that “a good government and a good opposition are not”.
“PS and Chega are increasingly going together. Both show lack of preparation, lightness and immaturity. Announcing a motion of censure half a year in advance is just as different as having nationalized and then privatized TAP. A good government and a good opposition are these not”Luís Montenegro wrote in a post on his official account on the social network Twitter.
PS and Chega more and more together. They both show unpreparedness, lightness and immaturity. Announcing a motion of censure six months in advance is as aberrant as nationalizing and then privatizing TAP. A good government and a good opposition are not like that.
– Luis Montenegro (@LMontenegroPSD) April 10, 2023
This tweet was posted just after André Ventura challenged the PSD leader to submit a motion of censure to the government, citing a “permanent and clear demotion of institutions” and that a “zero degree of politics” has been reached.
Ventura said if the PSD doesn’t do this sooner, Chega will file a censure motion during the next legislature. Chega cannot do this before the first days of September, as it has already exercised that right during the current session and the initiative failed.
Luís Montenegro had already considered this Monday morning that the Prime Minister’s response to TAP “isn’t a skill, it’s an escape from responsibility”, wondering if António Costa only finds former Secretary of State Hugo Mendes’ email extremely serious.
Montenegro reacted to the news from the Lusa bureau, which reported that the prime minister considers the email that former secretary of state Hugo Mendes sent to the executive president of TAP about the head of state very serious and claims that his resignation is timely.
“Do you just think this is very serious?? So a meeting between the CEO, PS and the government to prepare a hearing, a minister and former minister not telling the truth, the government preparing TAP’s responses, is all that normal??, he asked the leader of the PSD.
For Luís Montenegro, “this isn’t a skill, it’s an escape from responsibility”.
António Costa responded to the Lusa office before leaving for a two-day visit to South Korea after being questioned about the content of the former infrastructure secretary’s controversial email, which was made public in the parliamentary committee of inquiry at the board of TAP.
“Since I have not left yet, I answer this question about internal politics. Each institution has its time and this is the time for the Assembly of the Republic to find out the truth, the whole truth, as I said, hurts who hurts,” said the leader of the executive branch.
António Costa said he “didn’t know” that email “and if he had known he would have forced the minister [das Infraestruturas, Pedro Nuno Santos] to fire him on the spot”.
“It is very serious from the point of view of the institutional relationship with the President of the Republic and unacceptable in the relationship that the government must maintain with public companies,” he stressed.
Source: DN
