The Prime Minister, António Costa, said this Monday that what the former President of the Republic Cavaco Silva did, when he continued to criticize the government, “was to feed the frenzy in which the right is in Portugal, to be an artificial political crisis as soon as possible possible, so as not to give the Portuguese time to feel the benefits of this economic recovery”.
On the sidelines of an initiative to mark the 25th anniversary of Expo 98, in Parque das Nações, António Costa also said that Cavaco Silva had taken off his institutional suit as a statesman to “wearing a partisan militant’s T-shirt and making impassioned speeches to cheer up their party supporters”.
Professor Cavaco Silva is “a thorough expert on economic cycles and therefore has a good understanding of the dynamics we are currently in in the Portuguese economy. Fortunately, the Portuguese economy is overcoming the great difficulties it faced with the pandemic, with the war , with inflation,” he argued, adding that he does not feel pinched by the strong criticism that he was targeted by the former head of state.
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Source: DN
