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The President of the Liberal Initiative (IL), Rui Rocha
Rui Rocha, accused Gouveia and Melo to live in a submarine, challenging him to “surface explain what he thinks.” In another theme, the IL leader rejected coalitions with the PSD whenever the lists are candidates involved in Operation Tutti Frutti.
Rui Rocha challenged Gouveia and Meloputative presidential candidate, to “come to the surface” explain what he wants and what he thinks. “
Speaking of Ílhavo, at the meeting of the IL Extraordinary National Council, Rui Rocha said that Gouveia and Melo “It is a kind of submarine of Portuguese politics, that it is not known what you want and what you think ”.
“I have a challenge to make Gouveia and Melo: surfacethat comes out of the depths, because being in the depths can be a good tactic for certain military situations, but in politics it is open to say what is defended, facing the opponents, informing the Portuguese, ”he said.
The criticisms were also directed to the PS, “not knowing what it defends”, and being “in total bewilder” on the presidential issue, in which it dropped the requirement of international experience. “
Rocha doesn’t want mixtures with Tutti Frutti
Leaving behind the presidential theme and now taking the municipalities, Rocha ensured that “There will be no single IL candidate involved in the process All fruitI, who exposed “the worst of party appliances.”
More, he said, in an allusion to the PSDwhere the exception of IL occurs with other party formations in the municipal elections, your party will not negotiate, nor will it integrate lists where someone is involved in that process.
Criticism of other parties
The leader of the liberal initiative began his intervention that it is necessary to combat populism and criticized the parties that “defend one thing out and practice another inward.”
“What is the PS? Pedro Nuno’s, from Alexandra Leitão, or that of Catarina Mendes? ”He asked, referring to the different positions regarding immigration.
Rui Rocha also criticized the Left Block, which said he had “out and wild radical ideas inside,” to stop afterwards, which he classified as “a political fraud.”
“He says defending less pots and made the breakdown of parishes possible, creating hundreds of new positions,” he said, also criticizing the economic policies of the arrival that mean “more state and more speech.”
“It promises to clean Portugal and not even the clean parliamentary banking,” he said, questioning André Ventura about the position he will take in Parliament on Wednesday, in the discussion of the worsening penalties for the crime of domestic violence, when, for example, the leader of District of Aveiro do arrives was convicted of this crime.
“Arrives is like an online sales platform where, when we order a shirt and when it comes to us is spent and impossible to wear,” he compared.