Left Bloc coordinator Catarina Martins lamented this Monday that the government is not doing “absolutely nothing” to solve its internal problems or provide answers to the country and insisted that the infrastructure minister is “implausible”.
“The government is doing absolutely nothing at the moment: it is not solving its internal and institutional problems, nor is it able to respond to people’s lives, and I think this is the country’s biggest problem,” said Catarina Martins in statements to journalists in the neighborhood of Casal do Gil, in Lisbon, where residents are receiving eviction notices.
The leader of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) argued that the “government remains in disrepute not only because of the various scandals in different ministries, but also because of the inability to provide a political response in such important areas”.
“I remember the school year is coming to an end, there is still no solution for the teachers. The next school year promises not to have enough students for the students, because the teachers will retire and leave the public school, because they are angry – and rightly so – and there is no solution,” he said.
Catarina Martins also said that the judicial year is “successively halted and postponed because there is no solution for the justice officials”, adding that both housing and health issues are “getting worse”.
In reference to the tension between the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic over the Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba, Catarina Martins lamented that last week “not a single problem had been solved, neither in the country nor in the government”.
Regarding the specific case of João Galamba, the BE leader considered that the official has “two problems”, starting with highlighting his “lack of credibility”.
“If a minister lacks credibility, he loses his democratic legitimacy and loses dialogue with the sectors he needs to dialogue with to solve the country’s problems. This is a serious problem,” he stressed.
On the other hand, Catarina Martins opined that the Minister of Infrastructure also has a problem of “lack of concrete answers in the areas” he oversees.
“Look: from CP to TAP, to the airport, we are going through numerous problems and no one knows any idea from Minister João Galamba about any of these problems,” he underlined.
Asked if she believes that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa does not have a “hand on the government”, Catarina Martins believed that the President of the Republic was “in a complicated situation since he decided to shake hands with António Costa”, in a “number created to hold early elections and give an absolute majority to the PS”.
“I think there are many people in the country who deplore this absolute majority. The President of the Republic is certainly one of them,” he said.
When asked whether she believes that the PS would win with an absolute majority in elections, the BE coordinator replies that there is nothing in “talking every day about a situation that depends only on the government and the president of the republic”. . .
“We won by putting concrete problems on the table. Nothing helps a government that is unable to respond to the country more than talking to the country about everything but what needs to be solved,” he insisted.
Source: DN
