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Luís Montenegro will have guaranteed José Luís Carneiro that the government wants to count on the PS contributions to defense and health, namely – in the latter – with the Implementation of a “hospital emergency coordination unit”.
In Aljustrel, in the district of Beja, at the end of another ‘stop’ of the route “for the cohesion and appreciation of the territory”, which is doing for the National Road 2 (EN2) throughout the country, José Luís Carneiro was questioned by the agency Lusa about the Three letters you sent to Luís Montenegro.
The Socialist Secretary-General said he had already dialogued with Montenegro about these missives, who contained proposals on Hospital housing, defense and emergency.
“I obtained, in the dialogue I had with the Prime Minister, the word that the Government wanted to count on the PS contributions to the defense areas and [Saúde]to implement the hospital emergency coordination unit, ”he argued.
According to the PS leader, he addressed “many other matters” with the chief executive, but those were “object of concrete consideration of the prime minister” and now “compete [a Luís Montenegro] comply with that word and check how this commitment translates into practice. ”
José Luís Carneiro was also questioned by journalists in Aljustrel, by the announcement made by the government that, next Wednesday, will start a set of meetings in the Assembly of the Republic with the parties.
Meeting between PS and government
At a press conference after the meeting of the Council of Ministers, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Carlos Abreu Amorim said that these meetings will serve the Finance Minister to “disclose the great budget options” to discuss the state budget to 2026 (OE2026) and other matters.
The leader of the PS admitted that “there were contacts of the minister of parliamentary affairs with the president of the parliamentary group of the PS, in order to hear the political parties about various areas.”
One of the articles addressed was “the RECOGNITION OF THE STATE OF PALETOS”, On which the position of the socialists“ is known and public [e já foi] assumed and defended in the Assembly of the Republic, ”he said.
“I think there will be other areas, but we will wait for the definition of the government’s political agenda, because it is the government that has to take the initiative. It took the initiative [de avançar para as reuniões]they have to be, of course, to explain what they want to talk about, ”said José Luís Carneiro.
Regarding the independent technical committee on the fires, the PS secretary general said that, for now, “the most important” is still to follow the “time [de fogos] that is going on ”.
“We are still far from the end of these forest fires. I leave a word, once again, from responsibility to the Portuguese. There is only one way to avoid the fires, is to avoid ignition and, therefore, all, as citizens, we have to contribute to a safer country, avoiding ignitions,” he said.
EVERY CAVACO CARNEIRO
The PS leader was also questioned by journalists about statements made by the Minister of National Defense, Nuno Melo, that he was a socialist executive who, in 2015, dropped the purchase of new Canadair aircraft approved by the previous PSD/CDS government.
According to José Luís Carneiro, AD government “has to remember that it has been a year and a half with executive functions, so they are already being passed” and He returned to evoke the former Social Democratic Prime Minister Cavaco Silva: “A government that at the end of six months blames previous governments is an incompetent and unable to solve the problems of the Portuguese”..
