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Immigration, housing, defense, bullfighting? The debate between Nuno Melo and Inês Sousa Real was always disagreeing. The PAN leader considers it difficult to support an AD government; The centrist praised “Social Peace” achieved by the executive last year.
Nuno Melo and Inês Sousa Real They were face to face on Sunday night in a pre-campaign debate for the May 18 legislative elections.
The debate between AD and Pan, transmitted by, was the second in which Nuno Melo represented the PSD/CDS-PP coalition instead of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and sought to defend the results of governance in 11 months.
“Promises were made a year ago and the results of governance exceeded all expectations … The prophets of misfortune were confronted with good results that contradict predictions: the prime minister is the same, the minister of finance is the same, if we gave us four years we will do much more,” he defended, confronted with predictions of more pessimistic institutions in economics than the Ad.
In particular, the CDS-PP leader defended the “19 career appreciation” agreements signed last year: “We managed to end the dream of any leftist, which is that thing of permanent social disturbance on the street. (…) All of these socio -professional classes are better today And the street is quiet, because AD and the government have decompressed society, ”he said.
Pan refuses “solution” with ad
In the final phase of the debate, Inês Sousa Real was asked about the availability to be “The Balance Faithful” after the early May 18 elections, either left or right.
“With regard to the government of Luís Montenegro and its policies is difficult: when we have a government that supports the descent of VAT of bullfighting and the torture of animals, which turns our backs on victims of domestic violence or that does not solve the problems of violation crimes,” he replied.
Throughout the debate, the two were asked about the problems of housingwith Nuno Melo criticizing “some left” for recovering the proposal of the limitation to the incomes “which was by Professor Oliveira Salazar of 1948”.
The PAN leader argued that, in this matter, PS and PSD “are equalpromise a lot and perform little. ”
Sousa Real took the opportunity to introduce the theme of immigrationaccusing AD of creating “false perceptions” and defending the previous mechanism of manifestation of interests.
In counterpoint, Nuno Melo stuck the Pan to an extremist view in this matteras it arrives: “In the pan, because everyone comes. No one comes, no one comes in.”
In terms of defense, Inês Sousa Real argued that Portugal has mainly vocation for training and humanitarian missions and has no ability to be competitive in the armament industry, which led the leader of CDS-PP and minister of this portfolio to mock if “the country must pass the ball to the big ones.”
“It’s the others who will defend us? And if our military have to fight, what will they fight with?” He asked, arguing that the defense industries can be an economic “opportunity”.
Touradas? “Sou omnivorous”
Closing the debate, which surpassed the 30 minutes agreed between the televisions, the two diverged, as usual, in the matter of bullfights.
“Most of the Portuguese do not agree with bullfighting, nor are they funded with public money as the AD government does,” said Sousa Real.
“I am not a conscience dictator, I do not intend to impose my life model on others. Surely I do not have to accept Pan’s life model, I I am omnivore and intend to continue”Nuno Melo counterattacks.
