Lightning rods are in fashion. The Minister of Health is Mourinho from Montenegro

Chega’s leader, André Ventura, suggested this Friday that the prime minister wants to keep the Minister of Health “to have a lightning rod to protect himself” and accused Luís Montenegro of escaping his responsibilities as governor.

Lightning rods are in fashion. At the beginning of the week, the former Minister of Social Security and Labor António Bagão Felix said, in an interview with CMTV, that Jose Mourinho it’s a good lightning rod for Rui Costa. And it’s a good lightning rod, he stressed.

The president of Chega, Andre Venturaseems to have taken advantage of the former ruler’s cue, and suggested this Friday that the prime minister, Luis Montenegrowants to keep the current Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, “to have a lightning rod“.

“The Government when throws with the belly forward raises the idea of ​​two things, that the Prime Minister wants to keep this Minister of Health for a matter of lightning rod, that is, having someone there who is always the target of all the problems to protect yourself“, accused André Ventura.

The leader of Chega accused Montenegro of “wanting to escape its responsibilities as a ruler”, stressing that “a Government must assume these responsibilities and guarantee you will do better”.

André Ventura reacted to the case at the Amadora-Sintra hospital, saying that this is another case “that shows disorientation well” in healthcare.

“The minister seems to die whoever diesthose who remain without assistance, those who remain without means, that the Government never assumes responsibility and that The minister thinks she can continue her work without ever assuming this responsibility”, said the Chega leader on the sidelines of a visit to a company in Montijo.

Asked about the President of the Republic’s suggestion of the existence of a political agreement on the role of the SNSthe social sector and the private sector, in order for there to be a medium-term framework, André Ventura said that if there is an area in which there must be consensus, it is in health but argues that “it is necessary to tell the Government that cannot disinvest “.

“We today we have people who cannot afford medicines and we are removing budget precisely in one of the areas in which people have the most difficulties, which is health”, he said.

This pact “can be made between the three largest parties” and must be based on consistent investment that guarantees that hospitals do not have equipment failures and that health centers do not have equipment failures, said the president of Chega.

Another of the premises pointed out by the Chega leader is that “the Portuguese have to be healthy before others” and that Portugal cannot “pay for the health of the entire world, for people who arrive just to have treatment”.

“I don’t think this is a xenophobic message. It is saying that whoever is here has to have the right to health and it has to be the priority of the health system”, he stressed.