Asked a fatal question: From now on, Montenegro is a zombie?

“One of the worst phrases” always said by a prime minister. Because in politics it is not just survival that counts.

The prime minister’s statement to the country on Saturday night continues to lead to reactions and criticism.

On Saturday night, the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, advance with a motion of trust to the government if opposition parties did not clarify whether they consider that the executive “has conditions to continue to execute” his program, after being reported that the Spinumviva, Company detained by your wife and children, receives a monthly agreement of 4,500 euros from the Solverde Group.

The president of the PS, Carlos César, considered that Luís Montenegro “becomes the greater cause of weakness in your own governmentAnd reiterated that it will not be the socialists to cause an “undesirable instability.”

“[Luís Montenegro] You know that we are not causing undesirable instability, but you know that it becomes presiding over a marked government with a prime minister who becomes the biggest cause of weakness of his own government, ”Carlos César wrote in a publication on his personal page on the social network.

For the socialist leader, the prime minister “is a politician who does not seem to realize yourself. Neither itself nor to others ”.

And continues: “You know that situation where it has remained so far it was irregular and similar to others to which the most violent censorship made. ”

The socialist leader and former president of the Azores Regional Government also writes in the message that Luís Montenegro “knows that the PS has announced, when the motion presented by the arrival, that it will not vote in favor of censorship motions, but would also vote against a motion of trust.”

“Zombie”

That communication to the country on Saturday It remembered António Costa. The comparison is made by Bruno Vieira Amaral: “The worst I can say is that this play was worthy of António Costa. I was not waiting to see Montenegro in these games escapism, as Costa did ”.

The political commentator admits that at the level of political survival, Saturday night It went well The Montenegro. Especially because, shortly after its communication to the country, the PCP has announced that it will present one to the government, arguing that “it is unable to respond to the problems” of Portugal and “it deserves no confidence”, but censorship.

After the announcement of Paulo Raimundo, the Minister of State and Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, said in that, if the PCP censorship motion is rejected in Parliament, “There is no justification” for the government to present a motion of trust.

So, and as “other parties say the situation is serious but they just want to keep it alive,” the government survives, “even if decreased,” Bruno Vieira Amaral shot.

But, it warned on the radio, “In politics it is not only survival that counts. All this does not erase gravity of the situation ”.

And here he highlighted an issue that the Prime Minister got up on Saturday: he asked if “It would be fair and even appropriate to close everythingabandoning everything, just because circumstantially ”was elected president of the PSD and then Prime Minister, talking about the hypothesis of children and wife have to be left out of the company because of their political work.

This was “One of the worst phrases never said by a prime minister”believes the commentator: “This is completely deadly, fatal for the authority and legitimacy of a prime minister. From this moment on, Luís Montenegro is a political zombie” – And it was even one of the“ greatest assets ”of the composition of the current government.