Montenegro says Ventura is more responsible

Luís Montenegro is surprised by the PS threat to break with the government, saying that this party is not used to being opposed. The Prime Minister considers, in turn, that the arrival begins to show greater responsibility.

In an interview with Antena 1 program, Luís Montenegro He again said that he does not have a preferential or exclusive partner for dialogue.

The prime minister framed the statement he made last week that PS and arrives are both “government alternatives”, noting that they have “an equivalent, similar representation.”

“It is so in democracy, who is offended by this is in the end to be offended by the will of the Portuguese people, and I do not do,” he said.

Already about which parties considers most reliable, said it had as its principle “not suspecting anyone” and expect from both “constructive spirit”, although reiterating that the PS has “a history of greater reliabilityof greater capacity for democratic dialogue, of greater political responsibility. ”

However, Ventura is more responsible

Despite attributing a greater “historical reliability” to the PS, Montenegro considered that the party of André Ventura is more responsible.

“It costs me nothing to say it, you are starting to show [responsabilidade] Now, let’s see if you keep it, let’s see if this is low -hard sun, if it’s just a stove or if it’s a consistent trajectory, ”he said.

PS Malty used

About the PS, he argued that “he will not survive in the coming years to the story he has had in the previous 50 years” and considered that this party “is not used to being in opposition” after governor 23 years of the last 30.

“This badly used the PS, and the PS must have democratic humility To know how to be in the opposition, ”he said.

Montenegro said he had “founded expectation that the two largest opposition parties” could enable the State Budget (OE) to 2026 and appeal to that PS and arrives will not come back to, for example, approve a permanent increase in pensions.

“It was a line that last year has surpassed and I hope it is really an exception, because it calls into question the conditions of governability and is irresponsibility,” he said, considering that the country has only financial conditions to evaluate annually the possibility of a punctual bonus to the reformed, as will happen again in September.

However, this Sunday, the secretary general of the PS José Luís Carneiro It seems to have left open for the first time.