The parliamentary leader of the arrival ensures that the party is ready to dialogue and enable a government of Luis Montenegro, even if not part of it. Pedro Pinto says the arrival will show the President of the Republic that it is a “responsible party”, but that, for this, the prime minister has to give explanations and abandon “arrogance”.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, Pedro Pinto stressed the electoral result of the arrival – which, After counting the votes of emigration, it may become in the second largest political force in Parliament.
Admitting that, In the past, the vote in the party was “protest”the deputy considers that Now “people already take it seriously”.
“It’s a power party that can win elections at any time.”
Pedro Pinto recognizes that, after the results of last Sunday, the Arrives now has “more responsibility than the one I had. ”When asked what he intends to do with her, he replies that does not close the door to the dialogue with the ad de luís Montenegro – A position on which the party has not been clear, with advances and setbacks along the way.
At this time, the position of the arrival – at least, the one transmitted by Pedro Pinto – is that the party “It is available to make a government solution possible, whether or not to enter the government”.
The ball, he says, is on the side of the social democratic leader, who has to “make bridges. “Either dialogue with the arrival, or do dialogue with the PS” – which “did not go well” in the last legislatureA, pointed out.
And what requires the arrival for this dialogue? First of all, that the Prime Minister “be transparent” and provide all clarifications about the controversy that involves your family business. Secondly, that abandon the “arrogance” that has shown with “not no” At the arrival. A requirement that seems difficult to satisfy, since the .
Anyway, the arrival considers that sERIA “THE LARGEST TRACHY MAYNY” DO NOT “ENJOY” THE MOST RIGHT which currently constitutes Parliament and, therefore, maintains all hypotheses open.
Wearing the hat of “Responsible Party” -which, he says, will show the president of the republica, in the conversations that will start this Tuesday -, he stresses that You cannot “precipitate the country to another political crisis”.
Ventura outside the presidential and focus on autarchics
If initially, with the fall of the government, the leader of the arrival ended by these plans in stand by. Now, ensures Pedro Pinto, the Probability of Ventura being a candidate is almost null. Still, the party intends to support its own candidate.
“The arrival will have a presidential candidate who is probably not André Ventura,” he said. “I am 99% sure it will not be André Ventura.”
Asked if Pedro Pinto himself can be the candidate, the parliamentary leader of the arrival guarantees no.
More than in the presidential, the “Great focus” of the party is now in the municipal electionswhich happen in the fall.
“The arrival may be the second political force in Portugal, but if you have no municipal power it will never be a governance party,” says Pedro Pinto.
It is for this reason, he says that this is, for the party, the most important suffrage at the moment and when he will make the biggest bet.
Constitutional Review? The “opportunity” that the right “cannot waste”
A constitutional revision has been one of the themes on the table in the Assembly of the Republic and, com the new parliamentary configuration, the right can, alone, define in what molds it will happen.
Pedro Pinto is the opinion that Ad, il and arrives cannot “waste this opportunity” And they have to “sit at the table” to discuss the matter.
“We have the hypothesis that for the first time we can clean what is in the Constitution, the ideological part,” he says.
A matter on which the arrival has also been vocal is the defense of reduction in the number of deputies in Parliament. Pedro Pinto says the party is still available to do so, so as to “reduce charges” from the state, although he doubts that there is a will on the part of the PSD.
“There are 70 or 80 deputies who are not doing anything there,” he said. “And against me I speak, because I’m a deputy too.”
