“I’m not here to make the big PSD and the big CDs. I’m here to make the big people.”
The president of the PSD promised on Saturday to give workers more, so that they return to the country more, and admitted a new extraordinary increase in pensions later this year, but warned that Portugal needs political stability.
“O State has to give people more for people to give more to the country. And look at those who have been here before us and who are today reformed ”, declared Luís Montenegro, AD leader – PSD/CDS coalition at the end of a runaway by the historic center of Guimarães.
By his side the president of the CDS, Nuno Melo, the prime minister said that “a year ago there were many people who doubted and many people who launched the fear about AD’s candidacy, saying that he would be able to fulfill his promises.
“We increased the Solidarity complement for the elderly Twice we have given a 100% medicine reimbursement to the elderly who have more economic difficulties. We valued all pensions When we arrived in the middle of 2024, he said, before leaving another promise:
“We will do the same in 2025 if there are conditions [financeiras]. We attribute an extraordinary supplement to all pensions up to 1,527 euros. We are looking at the social state, health and housing“He added.
In his brief intervention, the president of the PSD argued that his government over the past year has guaranteed “financial stability, economic stability and social stability.” “We need political stability, We need the reinforcement of the majority to continue this project, to value young people, those who are working and those who are already renovated, ”he added.
“Make the big people”
The PSD leader and a prime minister warned that if AD does not achieve political stability, post-elections will be “much more complex”, promising “not to waste political and social dialogue” to reinforce the vote.
Questioned by the media-which he did not respond again about the PSD’s request to know who released the new information about Spinumviva-if he will ask for an absolute majority, the leader of AD (PSD/CDS-PP coalition) has never used that expression, saying he wants one “Major majority” what you had last year; emphasizing that he wants to maintain the “political and social dialogue.”
“It means the reinforcement of what is our representation and we have the expectation and we have very safe data that this is underway. Now we need to know that, with humility, no one wins the elections, neither before or after the elections, it is only on the day,” he said.
So, he asked, “that No one gives the victory for acquiredAnd appealed to the undecided and those who can even value the value of political stability than the proposals of each party.
“They value concrete policies, certainly value the program, value the leadership of the government, but also value the only way that guarantees stability. Because there is one thing that will not happen: If we cannot guarantee stability on election day, the next day will be much more complex And it may not correspond to what was the purpose of the people, ”he warned.
Faced with the insistence of journalists -and some supporters who asked for the absolute majority -Montenegro again defined what the largest majority he wants.
“It is a majority that I feel that it is the will of the Portuguese people, each with their opinion and we respect. And I say this with the humility of those who will interpret the result whatever, never wasting opportunities for political dialogue, social dialogue,” he said.
“This year we managed to talk whenever necessary with all those who are relevant, both from the political overview and the social panorama,” he said.
In the midst of your speech, an idea that remembered Donald Trump, US President: “I’m not here to make the big psd and the big cds. I really like the PSD and CDS to be big. But I’m here to make the big people In what they want to be, in the projects they have for themselves. This is our project. ”
Trump’s original slogan is “Make America great again“As the TSF pointed out, here the phrase of Luís Montenegro was not” to do large Portugal “, but” to do the big people. “This in an intervention where, given today, a predominant subject was – as in many US president speeches.
