José Coelho / Lusa
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, greets a saleswoman upon arrival at the Bolhão market to preside over to the Council of Ministers
The PS filed a complaint to the National Elections Commission (CNE) against the PSD/Porto council for inviting its militants to greet the Prime Minister at the Bolhão Market, the extraordinary place of the Council of Ministers, on Tuesday.
O Government was in Bolhãothis Tuesday, for a meeting of the Council of Minister.
In the campaign style, there were, among the people, acenos, smiles, kisses, and the PSD/Porto even invited the party militants to be next to the prime minister. The opposition was furious.
The PCP, by the leader’s voice Paulo Raimundodescribed this atypical moment as a “Great advertising operation”.
BE speaks, also, in a “scandalous action of political propagandanational and autarchic. ”In a statement, Be/Porto states that Bolhão is“ from the people and not the political marketing of the PSD and its ad ”.
In turn, PS/Porto accused the government of “Confuse state and party” and to walk “to walk the Council of Ministers in an election campaign” at the Bolhão market.
But the Socialist Party went further and presented a CNE complaint against PSD, for “Institutional Advertising” prohibited in the election period.
According to the complaint, the one that the Lusa agency had access, for the PS, is at stake violation of duties of neutrality or impartialityso the respective offense process must be instituted ”.
In the complaint, the socialists state that “the PSD/Porto council sent a message to the militants of that structure to be present in the Bolhão market and could greet the prime minister and president of the party”, transcribing the message in full.
“Dear militant, it is reported that tomorrow, April 2, Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will be in the city of Porto, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers who will sign 1 year of governance. The Prime Minister will arrive at the Bolhão market at 10:20 and leave at 12:30. All are invited to greet our president,” he can read.
This happens, curiously, the same day as the current minister of parliamentary affairs.
“This is not Hungary”
This afternoon, at a press conference at the PS headquarters in Lisbon, the socialist Marcos Perestrello accused the government of “state instrumentalization At the service ”of the interests of the parties, considering that the executive is doing“ campaign for the PSD ”.
Luís Montenegro rejected having violated “duties of neutrality and exemption ”by making a Council of Ministers at the Bolhão Market, in Porto, where he entered the announced candidate for the Porto Chamber, Pedro Duarte.
The government clarified that it informed all parliamentary groups about the holding of the Council of Ministers in Porto and invited deputies of all parties, as usually happens in these travels.
Speaking to, Nuno AraújoPresident of the PS/Porto Federation says that the government surprised the Portuguese for the negative for “another campaign action, which Luís Montenegro has taken throughout the country.”
In a statement issued this afternoon, the president of the district, said that “what happened today in Bolhão was a shocking advertising act paid by all Portuguese“Considering that” it is not normal in democracy. “
“We remind Doctor Luís Montenegro that We haven’t reached Hungary yet From Lord Orbán, ”he shot.
The socialists also accuse the minister Pedro Duarte to take advantage of the position, the moment and the resources to launch itself to the Porto Chamber.
In a reaction, on the afternoon of Tuesday, the secretary general of the PSD, Hugo Soaressaid that the fact that Pedro Duarte announced his candidacy for the Porto Authority on the same day as the Council of Ministers was held in the unbeaten city “It was a happy coincidence”.
“AD – PSD/CDS Coalition”
In a “controversy” aside from more equally about elections, Hugo Soares has announced that PSD and CDs will propose to go to votes in early May 18 legislative elections with the denomination “AD – PSD/CDS Coalition”.
“We are absolutely convinced that this denomination we choose corresponds to what was the judgment of the Constitutional Court that we were aware this week and that it fulfills all legal criteria so that it can be accepted by the Constitutional Court and for the coalition to go to votes by the name that is known by the Portuguese, ”he said.
According to Hugo Soares, this denomination, in addition to fulfilling all the “respect for the memory of all previous coalitions”, makes it “clearly expressed that this is a coalition only between the Social Democratic Party and the CDS-PP”, without the PPM that integrated the democratic alliance in the legislatures and European 2024.
“The appeal I make to the Portuguese, and will not take me wrong, is that on May 18 they can vote for the PSD/CDS coalition, and well -distinguishedin the voting report, of the other party that often confuses on the voting list, on the graphic, with our candidacy, which is the DNA“, These.
