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Basilio Horta, Mayor of Sintra
Costa Silva warns that placing IL in the new executive will be “introducing the chainsaw into the government of Portugal”.
The Mayor of Sintra, Basilio Horta, On Tuesday pointed to “the disgrace in which the CDS became”, appealed to the vote of the Christian Democrats on the PS and accused the government of incompetence during the blackout.
“And the AD leader says he can make an electoral agreement and only retreat when what remains of the CDs, Good thing Adelino Amaro da Costa and Diogo [Freitas do Amaral] are not alive to see the disgrace in which the CDS has become”, Said the socialist mayor and one of the CDS Founderswho spoke during a lunch at the Queluz Fire Barracks in Sintra.
During the speech, Basilio Horta also said that the social democrats “can only vote for the socialist party, even though it is not socialist” and pointed to the “incompetence” that said it was “transverse to the whole government.”
“This is the case that happened in the last blackout. We didn’t have a warning, a coordination, we didn’t have a suggestion. If we, Sintra, and the other municipalities, had not acted for themselves, we would have a national misfortune ”, He emphasized.
Basilus considers that since April 25, 1974, this is the first time social rights have been concerned and suffer “Serious threat” – SE A AD win on Sunday and get an absolute majority next to IL.
Costa Silva
The former Minister of Economy, António Costa Silvahe argued that only a PS victory prevents from entering the “chainsaw” government of IL’s “most radical projects”, qualifying the prime minister of “very weak leader” and “barata tont” in the blackout.
Present at the same event, Costa Silva shot: “Pedro Nuno Santos and the PS deserve this victory, because he is the only person in Portugal today who can prevent the victory of a candidate who has already announced that he will introduce chainsaw in the government of Portugal. And the chainsaw in the government of Portugal means giving rise to the most radical projects of Liberal initiative“.
The leadership of the country is one of the fundamental issues, from the perspective of the former minister, who is concerned in Sunday’s elections, quoting Luis from Camões when he said that “a weak king makes the strong people weak.”
Already Luís Montenegro is a “very weak” leaderalso stressing the case of the blackout: “When the country needed the most, without guidance, without coordination, without reaction. And we see the leader who wants to continue to be prime minister on May 18 to behave like a dizzy cockroach, not knowing what to do, not knowing what to say to the country.”
Pedro Nuno
The Socialist Secretary-General stressed that the left parties “worked well” jointly in the past, but now the PS needs to win the elections and build a stable governance solution with parliament that comes out of the legislatures.
“What is important is that we already had the opportunity to work in the past and We worked wellbut at this moment the Socialist party needs to win the elections”, He responded to journalists Pedro Nuno Santos when asked about the criticism and appeals that came from the parties to the left of the PS.
According to the PS leader, to have “a political change in Portugal,” socialists need to win the elections and that’s what he said to be focused on.
“Then, from Parliament leaving May 18, we will find the solutions of stability. If anything we have shown throughout our governments – myself – we have the ability to dialogue and to build lasting solutions, ”he emphasized.
Before the insistence of journalists about the solutions of governability, Pedro Nuno Santos replied that It is necessary to “wait by May 18 to realize the conditions ”with which this solution can be found.
“One thing is certain: the Socialist Party has to win these elections, otherwise we will not have stability,” he said, refusing that there is any taboo on the subject and that at this moment his party, like everyone else, “is fighting for victory.”
