Nuno Veiga / Lusa
The President of the Social Democrat (PSD), Luís Montenegro
Prime Minister assures that the government is not only focused on immigration. PSD and CDS-PP are “the central force” of democracy.
The Prime Minister defended on Tuesday that the PSD and the CDS-PP They are today “ central force ”of democracymore centered on action than ideology, and refused criticism that the government is “monothematic” and only legisle on immigration.
Luís Montenegro spoke at the end of the parliamentary days of PSD/CDS-PP, which have been taking place since Monday in Évora.
“We are more than ever the central political force of our democracy, this is observed in the disarmed sight, just look at Parliament,” he said, considering that the remaining matches left and right have More marked “ideologies and positions”.
In this sense, the president of the PSD and Prime Minister considered that these two parliamentary groups are better “Build bridges” with both sides of the hemicycle.
“We are not marked by dogmas and ideologies that compress our action. We are much more marked by the will and the realization of the resolution of people’s real problems,” he said, arguing that PSD and CDS-PP constitute “a political force of dialogue.”
However, he warned that these parties that support the government do not see dialogue as the end of their political actionbut only “as an instrument to bring positions, not a means to tie decisions.”
In his intervention of more than half an hour, Montenegro also sought to contradict criticism that the policies of the immigration constitute the “Alpha and omega”The government action, but stressed that the executive program was voted by most Portuguese on 18 May.
“There are some political agents whose parliamentary representation the Portuguese wanted to be one deputy, from three deputiesin the best of accounts six deputies, who speak with arrogance on behalf of the Portuguese For those who represent most of the Portuguese, ”he said in an apparent message to BE, PCP and free.
And added: “If in democracy, the majorities must respect the minorities, also It is a golden rule of democracies that minorities respect majorities“He appealed.