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The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Reply of the President of the Republic to the words of the former candidate for office. Health situation is “very difficult”, with “tighter” paths.
The President of the Republic argued that there was “appreciable stability” in Portugal in his mandates, despite the dissolution of Parliament, which claimed to have been unwanted, due to factors outside his control and the third “totally alien” to his will.
MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA He took this position in statements to journalists during the eighth and last book party at the Belém Palace in Lisbon, while taking stock of this initiative, regarding the criticisms directed by António Sampaio da Nóvoa in A to Jornal de Notícias and TSF.
Questioned about criticism for “Three atomic bombs” in your mandates, that Sampaio da Nóvoa qualified as “a absolutely immense democratic violence ” Which was “fertile pasture for these populism,” the head of state began to express admiration for the former presidential candidate, who was his opponent in 2016.
“I do not usually comment on figures of Portuguese political life, let alone a person that I I admire a lot, Which on top of that was my opponent for ten years, and that I admire and I think there is a profile to be president of the Republic. Then I didn’t want to apply more, but I had a profile, ”he said.
Then Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke of his three dissolutions, justifying them one by one, compared the Portuguese political situation of recent years with those of other European countries and signaled the time of coexistence he had with the previous Prime Minister, António Costa.
“Portugal has had a appreciable stability, Because in ten years he truly had two prime ministers, one of which eight and a half years. It’s an appreciable stability, ”he said.
The President of the Republic said that “it was possible to have a cohabitation of a government [do PS] The leftist of Portuguese democracy after the revolution with a right-wing president, ”he said that he lived with the same Prime Minister“ for eight and a half years ”, and commented: “If this is not stability, I don’t know what stability is.”
In your view, “Political systems are all very in crisisnamely Europeans, and Portugal has endured more than the generality of European political systems. ”
Very difficult in health
The President of the Republic considered that the situation of health in Portugal is “Very difficult” that “ ways To get out of it are increasingly tightS ”and oblige“ very difficult background decisions ”.
“The situation is very difficult, complicates with time, and the hypotheses, the ways to get out of it are increasingly tight, but have to be followed,” he said.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa again sent to “following the municipalities” of 12 October his analysis of this article, noting that he is “adding data” and “gain perspective”.
The head of state said, however, that it considers that the “Great problems” From the health sector “not many, there are few, but fundamental”, and “either if these big problems are solved or the rest later happens.”
Questioned about news about the Birth of a baby in an ambulancethe President of the Republic commented: “When I see this news and others, I say that, having to solve those great problems, These facts can happen very often. ”
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa argued that the situation of the sector “obliges marcel“And, asked if there is a lack of political courage, countered:” It is not a problem of political courage, it is a problem of difficulty in the situation. “
On this occasion, the head of state never referred to the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins.
Confronted with criticism not to talk earlier about the situation of the industry, he justified his choice: “I am adding data, on the one hand. And, on the other hand, gaining perspective, to see if what I think, which is my point of view, is justified or not. In another week or two I have more reasons to think I have justification”.
