Former President of the Republic Cavaco Silva said this Wednesday that the political situation, which he described as “very dangerous” two months ago, has since deteriorated “much more than expected”, without wanting to go into detail about what he is referring to.
At the end of the launch of the book “Crónicas de um País Estagnado”, by PSD parliamentary leader and university professor Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, and in which he sat next to PSD president Luís Montenegro, the former head of state was asked if they agree with the diagnosis.
“I came here just to take part in the launch of the book by Professor Joaquim Sarmento, who was my adviser when he was President of the Republic,” Cavaco Silva began.
Then, and asked what he thought of recent statements by the current head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, that there was still no right-wing alternative to the current PS government, the former prime minister gave a more extensive answer.
“A few weeks ago I said that the political situation in Portugal was very dangerous. Since then it has deteriorated much more than I expected at the time. In this context, I understand that I should not comment,” he said unintentionally clarifying specifically what you are looking at refers.
On February 15, in Figueira da Foz, Cavaco Silva had resorted to this expression, also without giving details. “I have often been asked to speak about the political situation in our country. But I believe that it is not the time for me to speak, because I believe that our political situation is very dangerous at the moment and I want to don’t throw axes at the fire,” stressed Cavaco Silva.
“That’s why I apologize for not adding anything more than what I just said on that microphone,” he underlined at the time.
On Monday, the president of the republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, again rejected a dissolution scenario, citing the business cycle and the lack of “an obvious alternative in political terms”, and challenged the opposition to “what the sum of numbers can be transformed”. in the polls “in a political alternative that is a reality strong enough for the Portuguese to say: in the future we have this alternative”.
Source: DN
