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The Secretary General of the Socialist Party (PS), Pedro Nuno Santos
Pedro Nuno Santos and Pedro Santana Lopes star in a peculiar exchange of barbs, with innuendo of “broken” and infantiles, and with the government of Luís Montenegro in the middle.
Pedro Santana Lopes did not like to hear the comparison he made between the government in which he was prime minister in 2004 and the current executive of Luís Montenegro, and responded in the same coin to the PS secretary general.
The socialist leader compared the government of Montenegro In 2004, when Durão Barroso succeeded as Prime Minister, during a meeting with entrepreneurs organized by the Confederation of Commerce and Services.
Without referring to the name of Pedro Santana Lopes, the PS secretary-general spoke of the executive led by the former Social Democrat, noting that the current government of Montenegro “It is an equal government with another five months” and that “involved everyone in clutter for which we were not called. ”
Pedro Nuno continued, stressing that Montenegro’s situation is “unsustainable” and that “It has consequences in the economy”as happened with Santana Lopes in 2004.
That year, the Parliament was eventually dissolved By President Jorge Sampaio, which dictated the fall of the government of Santana Lopes who was only in office as Prime Minister for about five months.
Santana Lopes speaks of “Children’s Dispatch” by Pedro Nuno
Santana Lopes was “touched” with the words of Pedro Nuno and answered him to the letter in statements, remembering the cases in which he was involved while Minister in the Government of António Costa.
The former prime minister of the PSD stressed that while being in government, “no minister forgot to have authorized compensation half a million euros ”, remembering the amount paid to the former TAP manager, Alexandra Reis.
Santana Lopes also accused Pedro Nuno of authorizing compensation and thrown “blames for another minister and for one secretary of state. ”
The former president of the party he formed after leaving the PSD also noted that while he was a prime minister, “No minister has been disallowed After having done a children’s dispatch as if it were the only one to decide. ”
This note refers to the moment Pedro Nuno Santos announced the Location of the New Lisbon Airport to the default of the Prime Minister. António Costa eventually ended the revocation of the order.
Santana Lopes also recalled that in her government, They did not “walk in the cabinet”as happened with the minister who succeeded Pedro Nuno Santos in the Infrastructure Folder, João Galamba, in 2023, in a controversial episode with the deputy Frederico Pinheiro.
