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Rui Rio wanted understandings between PSD and PS, António Costa never wanted. “A great opportunity was missed, Portugal would profit a lot.”
The newly created PS It has several personalities linked to politics. One of them is Marçal Cricket, who was Minister of Education in the days of António Guterres.
Analyzing the current policy in Portugal, Marçal Grilo recalls that for over 30 years who defends understandings between PS and PSDwith “detailed analysis in fundamental issues for the country”. Portugal would “profit a lot” if there were these understandings, he considers.
In an interview with, the former minister stresses: “We can’t compare the PS with the arrival.”
It admits that the arrival has many deputies (60) but the PS has a “history of relevance in democracy that only the PSD can have.” The PS is a “solid party, with study capacity, preposition, decision.” There is a “huge difference” between them, he highlights.
Marçal Grilo congratulates that held this Wednesday between Luís Montenegro and José Luís Carneiro. And the later statements of the PS leader leave the idea that “There may be understandings” between PS and PSD.
The former minister recalled that Rui Rio wanted this approach, “António Costa never wanted, and a great opportunity was missed”.
Marçal Grilo points out that these understandings “They are not coalitions” between the two parties.
And the arrival, which is now the second party with the most deputies in the Assembly of the Republic, is not an obstacle? “The arrival is a very specific and very special party: It belongs to this populist wave that floods European countries and the US, and this kind of attitude, this way of being in politics… I have a great distrust of these attitudes. ”
The former minister thinks that it arrives, at least at this scale, will not last long: “The shout, the insult, the poor creation… is a little ephemeral. Countries will not hold this kind of people that are permanently creating problems, screaming. And that are insatiable in their demands. ”
