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The Assistant Minister and Territorial Cohesion, Manuel Castro Almeida.
Assistant minister thinks that “the motion of trust can be withdrawn.” He says the ball is in the hands of the PS, but Leitão Amaro says it is not so.
The deputy and territorial cohesion minister admitted today that the government may remove the motion of trust If the PS is satisfied with the data data and Remove the proposal of Inquiry Committee.
“I think if the PS comes to declare that it recognizes the government conditions to execute its program, declare that it is considered satisfied with the clarifications data and that removes the parliamentary committee of inquiry, I think There are conditions for the confidence motion to be removed, ”said Manuel Castro Almeida, in an interview with the newspaper
The ruler pointed out that “from the beginning” the government has said that does not want to “take the country to elections And that the elections are absolutely undesirable, ”but” it will be a necessary evil if there is no formulation that there is conditions for the government to fulfill its program. “
Manuel Castro Almeida said the executive “or is able to execute his program, take action, continue to reform the country, or not worth it.”
“It will be unwilling that we go to elections. But who really provokes them is the PS, ”he said, considering that if the socialists want to avoid anticipation of legislatures, they can do so, simply by voting on the motion of trust, rather than voting against, as already announced by the PS secretary general.
The ruler pointed out that The PS did not make the motions of censorship possible presented by arrives and PCP and accused the socialists of inconsistency and “pure tacticism.”
Castro Almeida also said that “all the questions that were raised in writing will be answered before the confidence motion.”
About the possibility of the PSD to propose Someone to replace Luís Montenegro in the position of Prime Minister, the minister considered that “this is totally out of cause“And it’s” a non -subject. “
Leitão Amaro denies: Motion is “last opportunity”
The Minister of the Presidency, however, tends to disagree with this opinion: At the end of the press conference of the Council of Ministers, António Leitão Amaro was asked about the statements of the Assistant Minister.
Referred to the vote on confidence in Parliament is the “last opportunity” To avoid elections, pushing the idea that the government can remove this instrument if the PS retreats in the inquiry.
Leitão Amaro argued that Castro Almeida made “a sum of additive conditions”being the main one that “there has to be a clarification of the definitions of governability conditions.”
“The essential theme is not and has never been the CPI, what is at stake is whether the opposition – which as a whole is majority – trusts, accepted, that there are conditions of governability or not,” he said
Insurance wants “dialogue”
“Going to elections may be an option, but it is not the answer, because it is not clear that it will not be in the same,” the potential socialist candidate to the presidential, António José Seguro, will not be.
This Friday, he also said in statements transmitted on RTP, that “It is in the national interest that there are no early elections“, And consider that “There are conditions” so that they are not realized.
Portugal “needs political stability, it doesn’t need rot,” he says, and March 11, the day of the confidence motion debate, “may be in the history of our country as a sad moment or as a time when the parties were able to put the national interest above their interests.”
“My wish is that the dialogue bridges are not destroyed,” yet. “How does the motion of trust withdraw? The government will know what the conditions are, ”he concludes.
Also the social democrat and formal candidate for presidential elections Luís Marques Mendes asked the President of the Republic that e.
