ZAP // António Pedro Santos, Filipe Amorim / Lusa
Leaders of the Left Bloc and CDU did not reject post-election understandings with the PS, but only since this party agrees to “break with the current politics”, with Mariana Mortágua accusing Pedro Nuno Santos as a “right turning point”.
Being “much more what unites them”, Mariana Mortágua and Paulo Raimundo tried to explain what separates them, in front of the Left Bloc and CDU leaders in pre-campaign for May 18 legislatives at RTP3
But they registered above all convergences between the two far left parties. To begin with, both parties intend to break the policies of the current government and see with growing concern the position of the PS.
Mariana Mortágua criticized PS secretary general, Pedro Nuno Santos, in stories such as housing-accusing him of “give up” – Or in immigration, where I said that “It was dragged” with the right politics.
Questioned about the availability for Post-election understandings With the PS, Neither party leaders closed the doorbut both imposed the conditions of rupture to negotiate an eventual new geringonça.
“The understanding depends on policies. The BE presents priorities to the elections and here we will be to talk to the PS and all the deputies who really want a ceiling to the rent, a fair fiscal policy and who really want to respect those who work for shifts, ”replied Mariana Mortágua.
The coordinator of BE lamented that you talk so much “in mathematics” in these elections and considered that “There is an elephant in the room“:” The turn on the right that makes the PS in these elections waiting to get the PSD support if you get a deputy ahead of the PSD. “
“The question we should ask is If ps with psd or if psd with ps They will do that together that did not do separated, ”he said.
About Luís Montenegro and the Spinumviva case, Mortágua considers that the Prime Minister violated the exclusivity rule of functionsS because the company that founded having bounds with companies, but promised to “dispense with this theme the minimum of time”.
Raimundo considered in turn that “the only attitude Luís Montenegro should have taken it was fired”.
The CDU Secretary-General argued that “the country needs anything but the continuity of policy that is being followed“, And said it was not exclusive to the PSD/CDS-PP government.
“All those who want to come to this path break with the current path can count on us. Those who think that in 2029 is that it is the Porreira height – Sorry for the expression – for the national minimum wage to be fixed in a value that is already practiced in Spain, They are not looking well“He considered.