Cavaco Silva closed the 3rd National Meeting of Social Democratic Mayors (ASD) in Lisbon this Saturday with a speech in which he left very strong messages and criticisms of the government and admitted that he was very concerned about the future of the country.
“I have serious concerns about the PS board,” said the former PR opener.
“Luís Montenegro has well identified the political opponent of the PSD, it is the PS and its government. It was the PS and its government that led the country on the path of impoverishment and the deep deterioration of the national political situation. It is in the socialist government that the PSD must concentrate its action, must not spread energy with other parties, nor respond to provocations that may come from them. The PSD is unequivocally the only real alternative to the PS government,” he added.
“The situation of low salaries and old-age pensions that do not allow for a dignified life, the impoverishment of the middle class, the poor quality of public services, such as education, health care and justice, are the result of the government’s wrong policies. incoherence and bewilderment, the lack of direction and strategic vision. These are the results of a Prime Minister who has lost his authority, who does not carry out the powers that the Constitution grants him: directing the functioning of the government and the general policy of the executive branch and coordinating and guiding all ministers. These are skills that political analysts seem to have forgotten,” he continued.
“The PSD has presented alternatives to government policies and championed causes that allow undermining the economic and social decline in which the country finds itself, to improve the lives of the Portuguese. The statement that the PSD has not presented policy is total incorrect. alternatives to the socialist government,” he shot.
cavaco also spoke of a “country that is ruled in fits and starts” and a government that “has no work to present and considers it important to have a good propaganda center”. If Guterres “leaves the country in a quagmire” and Sócrates leaves it “bankrupt”, the government of António Costa, despite its many supporters, will “leave the next government an extremely heavy legacy”, Cavaco stressed.
“Did the Portuguese think it was normal that the government, which had an absolute majority, which has just turned one year old, had to fire 13 members?”emphasized Cavaco, speaking of the current “disastrous” scenario Portugal finds itself in, and therefore “PSD is the only credible option to free the country from the government”.
Former President of the Republic Aníbal Cavaco Silva added that sometimes prime ministers “decided to resign” because of “a strike of conscience”.
“In principle, the current legislature ends in 2026. But sometimes, due to reflection on the situation in the country or a revival of conscience, prime ministers decide to resign and early elections are held – that’s what happened in March 2011. ,” said
Source: DN
