Update
The PS leader stated that the maintenance of coal centers, closed by the former socialist government, “It would not have avoided the blackout.” And he also compared the way the government managed this crisis with the way socialists dealt with other crises, accusing Montenegro of “failing in response” to problems, but not “in propaganda.”
The Secretary General of the Socialist Party (PS) accusedthis afternoon, the executive of Luís Montenegro de “incompetence” in the management of the energy crisis this Monday. For Pedro Nuno Santos, the “But serious” It was the “blackout” of the government itself.
In a statement made, this afternoon, at the headquarters of the PS, in Lisbon, the socialist leader spoke of a “absence of leadership” when the country needed the most and defended the energy policy optionsGETICAL TAKEN BY PRE -PS Governments.
The PS Secretary-General recordor that “the maximum civil protection guardian is the prime minister” and that, This Monday, For hours, “there was no answer.”
“The government failed. Failed in communication. In the duty to inform and protect citizens in a timely manner,” declaresor.
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For the socialist leader, it was imperative that civil protection, under the government’s nomination, had used the hourly radio to communicate with the Portuguese.
“It is in the difficulties that the true leadership is evaluated and yesterday we did not have it,” said Pedro Nuno Santos, noting that Luís Montenegro said “in the early afternoon,” but “said nothing relevant.”
“We have been with false and alarming news to circulate without the government to reassure populations”He pointed out, also accusing a ruler (Castro Almeida, Deputy Minister and Cohesion) of even helping to validate this misinformation and the ministers with the protection of civil protection and the energy of disappearing.
Pedro Nuno Santos claims that the recent experiences, which joined Monday’s blackout, have shown “the incompetence of this government in crisis management” – and pointed to previous crises in INEM and the 2024 fires.
The socialist leader also accused the prime minister of “propaganda” rather than responding to problems. He pointed out that, after months with insufficiencies in the urgencies of obstetrics – “without a word” of the prime minister on the subject, Montenegro “found a good idea to make a statement at the door of the maternity Alfredo da Costa.”
“Always fails to respond to the crisis, never fail to advertisement,” he says.
