Estela Silva / Lusa
Candidate for President of the Republic looked at the list and noticed that he didn’t want to go back to anyone. Messages helped.
When will João Cotrim de Figueiredo decided to be candidate for President of the Republic? That was when he looked at the list of names that had already advanced and noticed that I didn’t want to vote for anyone.
“I started with myself: hey man, I don’t know who to vote for. I know that It’s a bit stupid to say, but I’m running so you can vote for me own”, reveals the former IL leader.
Cotrim de Figueiredo says that, as soon as he decided to move forward, he immediately received messages from voters who supported his candidacy.
Do you think there are candidates? “grey”, or that they are “not interested, I don’t know if they are qualified to discuss the difficult issues that Portugal will have to face”.
Already Health, the liberal defends a Universal Health Access System: the State finances health through subsystems, users have the freedom to choose – public or private, without additional costs.
“The biggest opponents of implementing that system would be private health groups”, analyzes the candidate for Belém.
Still on Health, and in a phase of demands for minister Ana Paula Martins to resign, if elected, Cotrim There will not be a president “who will ask for heads of ministers”.
The candidate supported by IL thinks that lack of “courage” to change Health, Education, Social Security and Defense: “Because of this obsession with the next election, that I can’t offend anyone, I can’t harm anyone who could be an electoral clientele, this means that problems are postponed”.
In this context, he admits that he would like the current Government – or the current PSD – bet more on reforms, without “worrying so much” about such clientele.
Is against the privatization of Social Security, a “very important pillar of the Social State that I think modern democracies have an obligation to maintain and sustain”.
