Minister of Cohesion is the head of AD by Portalegre, the electoral circle where the coalition was unable to elect any deputy last year.
Governability always feeds the weeks before legislative elections. This time there are doubts about what AD will do if PS wins the elections by a similar margin to last year’s victory. Manuel Castro Almeida does not confirm the reciprocity requested by the PS, but warns that, with a major majority in Parliament, Pedro Nuno Santos would be the leader of a “term” government.
About understanding with the liberal initiative, the message seems not to be afraid of a useful voting escape: “It would live on a Council of Ministers with people of the liberal initiative. There are areas of their program with which I identify” myself ”
Montenegro incompatibilities? “I never gave much importance to this subject”
In the only interview Montenegro gave almost half a year, he revealed that his ministers know that when he has incompatibilities, he refuses to take positions. Castro Almeida does not remember ever happening.
In this interview with the political fact answers “I don’t know” when the question is about whether to remember the moment when Solverde was an incompatibility of the head of government, adding that “I never gave much importance to this subject, yet today I do not.”
The minister of territorial cohesion also reveals that “it is recurring several ministers to say that they cannot pronounce on various matters,” but cannot say which times: “I am not able to make this list. They are usually things of distant calls.”
“If I were PM, Health Minister was still in government”
When it comes to Health Minister Manuel Castro Almeida says this is the “hardest government’s position, I didn’t want to be in her skin”.
In spite of everything, he argues that Ana Paula Martins “is putting things on the good way” and that “although there is no direct relationship between the heads of the list and continuity in the government,” says that “if PM, Ana Paula Martins was still in the government.”
