“That Minister João Galamba was one of the leaders elected on June 10 to represent the government, despite the huge rejection by Portuguese society and previous scathing criticism from the President of the Republic, apparently shows the wrong and even provocative way in which the PS interprets the date and confuses absolute majority with absolute power.”
This is how the leader of the CDS, Nuno Melo, reacts to the presence of the Minister of Infrastructure this afternoon at the official celebration of 10 June. A presence that, incidentally, earned João Galamba a chorus of boos, as well as cries of “shame on you” and “go away”, as soon as it was announced and after his appearance, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato, in Peso da Régua.
“The difference between the perception of the Prime Minister, António Costa, and the feeling of the people is reflected in every whistling and jeering we see today,” says Nuno Melo, speaking of a “simmering and growing political crisis since taking office of the socialist government.”.
The leader of the CDS took up the metaphor of the president, emphasizing that “the absolute majority of the PS failed across the board” and that the country’s problems will not be solved by cutting down some dead branches, because “the whole tree already dry”.
“The CDS-PP agrees with the President of the Republic when he says that Portugal is more poverty than wealth, more inequality than equality, more reasons to leave sometimes than to stay. Education and social security are increasingly portraits of a deeply dissatisfied country with socialist governance,” said Nuno Melo. For the CDS-PP, what is urgent to bring to the country is a new breath, “a new cycle that frees us from socialism and gives hope to the Portuguese”.
As for the country and the Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities, the center leader’s speech is on the other side. “The CDS-PP believes that today is the day to commemorate Portugal and the Portuguese, with pride in our history as a whole, without guilt complexes or the need to reckon with the past,” defends Nuno Melo. “The balance that the CDS-PP makes is one of pride,” he emphasizes, recalling that the June 10 commemoration is a celebration of “our country, a nation with nine hundred years of history, tradition, but above all with a future “.
“It is the day for us to look straight ahead, assist our compatriots in all continents and outline the situation of the country,” concluded the CDS-PP president.
Source: DN
