// José Coelho, Miguel A. Lopes, António Cotrim / Lusa
Suddenly José Sócrates becomes the protagonist of the election campaign, almost 14 years after being a prime minister.
The posters originated, the case has already moved to, but André Ventura insists: The case of spinumviva, which involves the family of Luís Montenegro, and comparable to cases around José Socrates.
On Sunday, the arrival leader left harsh criticism of the prime minister’s conduct, noting that he has explanations to give about his heritage.
“We have a Prime Minister who enriched miraculously. Build palaces and buy houses. The problem is that a politician has added duties about the other citizens and You have to explain How is the heritage that comes from the exercise of public activity allows that kind of things. Otherwise it is a Socrates just like others we had“.
Ventura added that “either we want to be a full-time prime minister or we are prime minister to part-time.”
The President of the arrival criticized the, highlighting the proposal of IVA zero In Cabaz Food, as he arrived at the time he tried to approve in 2023, but at the time he was rejected by the socialists.
“What has changed for a year and six months to now? Nothing. Just keep one thing: it’s the Lack of shame in the face of the Socialist Party In these elections, ”he said.
Ventura also criticized measures recently announced by the PS, such as the attribution of and the end of some tolls claiming that for eight years of socialist governance these measures have never been put into practice.
“We cannot think that the alternative to the PSD has to be the PS. Because those who ruled for eight years and did nothing of what is promising now, we have to have the due suspicion that only is doing it for pure electoralism,” he said.
Minister speaks… Socrates
The PSD also to the program presented by the socialists. President Luís Montenegro compared the current PS to former prime minister José Sócrates for “promising everything to everyone”.
“Today, our candidate said [na sua intervenção] who was not here to make false promises, that was not here to promise what he could not do. It is curious because at the same time as Fatima [Alves] I was talking, someone further, was presenting the election program for the May 18 legislative elections, and was precisely, In the good way for a former prime minister, named José Sócrates, to promise everything to everyone, ”said Montenegro.
“Now is to promise everything to everyone as if they were feasible, responsible to be, overnight, to promise and to give everything to everyone, being unaware that this is the first step on the way to impoverishment, on the way to have more difficulties in the future than those we have to overcome today,” he explained.
This was on Saturday, the day of the PS electoral program. The next day, with a few more hours to study the document and think about the reactions, a minister spoke in… José Sócrates.
“If this program was ever applied, Portugal would return to the time of impoverishment that ended in bankruptcy. Pedro Nuno Santos would be the new José Sócrates. The PS entered the free wheel, came up its most immature, less thoughtful side, ”he said Manuel Castro Almeida, Minister Assistant and territorial cohesion, and PSD’s list head by Portalegre.
Whereas this program “is the end of the right accountsit is the funeral of the state’s budgetary equilibrium, ”Castro Almeida stated that“ Portugal would have a deficit and increase public debt again ”:“ despair took over the PS ”, accusing the socialists of“ promising everything to everyone without doing anything to anything ”.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
