The deputy secretary general of the PS opined on Thursday that the PSD does not want clarification about the actions of the security services and accused the social democrats of making an opposition “very little responsible” in relation to the national interest.
“The main opposition party doesn’t really want to be clarified,” João Torres told Lusa, responding to the press conference where PSD general secretary Hugo Soares believed the prime minister assumed today that the infrastructure minister was lying in committee of research into TAP and the country.
“I absolutely reject the premises of that intervention, I absolutely reject the conclusions of that same intervention and I insist that the PSD does not want clarification. I insist that the PSD only wants to install artificial noise and confusion,” underlined João Torres. .
The socialist leader also appealed to the social democrats, suggesting that the PSD has “more sense of balance in the way it intervenes publicly”, emphasizing that “this mode of opposition lacks responsibility and lacks caution with regard to the national interest”.
In the appeal, João Torres urged the PSD to stop making “an opposition seen by the majority of Portuguese as a needy opposition, a very bad opposition”.
“This does not ennoble the political life of our country, because in a modern, mature and developed democracy, in a solid democratic regime, it is very important that the opposition also takes its responsibility, it is very important that the opposition live its responsibilities. And that is clearly not what happened,” he stressed.
‘Lack of grandeur from the leadership of the largest opposition party’
João Torres also believed that the PSD’s strategy was due to “internal problems” and because the government “has shown good results from an economic and social point of view”.
“The Portuguese have long since recognized the lack of greatness of the main opposition party and have also recognized the lack of greatness of the leadership of the main opposition party. A leadership that has been light, superficial and an authentic void of ideas,” he said. the socialist.
The Social Democrats, at the party’s national headquarters, responded to the replies sent today to the PSD by the Prime Minister, António Costa, regarding the performance of the security services in the recovery of a computer taken over from the Ministry of Infrastructure, stating that the SIS action did not require your authorization, nor was it the result of a suggestion from your Deputy Secretary of State, António Mendonça Mendes.
When asked whether the PSD admits to proceeding with a commission of inquiry into the implementation of the “secret”, Hugo Soares reaffirmed that the party does not exclude any instrument, not least because the Prime Minister’s Deputy Secretary of State, António Mendonça Mendes , has yet to be heard in parliament. , but left some doubt about the usefulness of this mechanism.
“If we have ministers who are in a parliamentary committee of inquiry with the Prime Minister’s permission, then we doubt its usefulness, if it is up to the ministers to continue to lie,” he said.
The Social Democratic leader also accused the government of “appearing to have an interest in extending this soap opera”: “Frankly, it gives the feeling that the government is purposely not speaking clearly and truthfully to the country, because while this soap opera goes on, there’s a real life out there,” he added.
“Given the answers the Prime Minister has given today, there is one of two things: either he immediately fires Minister João Galamba, whom he accused of lying to parliament in a committee of inquiry and to the country, or we can say that the Prime Minister has resigned from the country,” said the Social Democrat.
Source: DN
