Luís Montenegro and Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Luís Montenegro has “clearly superior qualities” compared to other party leaders. And the three criteria for choosing a prime minister.
The former President of Republic Hannibal Cavaco Silva Today he argued that the prime minister was the target of a “campaign of suspicions and insinuations” of the opposition and “some media”, centered on “largely” in the wanton of his private life.
In an opinion article published in the newspaper ‘Online’, Cavaco Silva also reiterated the defense of the ethical and moral stance of the prime minister and president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, just like your technical and political superiority regarding other party leaders And he established a parallel with the motion of confidence spoiled by Parliament and to which he himself also presented, but which was approved in 1986.
“And campaign of suspicions and insinuations moved by opposition parties and some media Against the person of the Prime Minister-more confusing and uninformative than enlightening-and, largely, centered on the Devassa of his private life, I did not infer that Luís Montenegro violated any ethical principles or committed illegalities“Cavaco Silva sustained.
The former President of the Republic and former Prime Minister considered that, in the way Montenegro reacted to the questions raised by his family business, currently detained by his children, there was “initially a evaluation error In what, in times of very strong competition between the media, some of them require knowing and publicizing about the personal life of political agents. ”
“It was a mistake that, afterwards, corrected in a superlative wayas proof of your good faith ”, wrote the former social democratic leader.
With all this, look at Luís Montenegro as a leader with “clearly superior qualities In terms of technical and political competence, leadership capacity of the government and defense of Portuguese interests in the European Union and is not behind any of them with regard to ethical dimension in political life. ”
Criteria
For the former prime minister, the choice of a government leader is based on three criteria: political and technical capacity, the ethical dimension in political life and the government’s general policy proposal.
Cavaco Silva thinks the program of AD–Coligation PSD/CDS is the “More appropriate the development of the country, improving the well-being of families and to a more promising future for young people than proposals from other party formations ”
“These are non -dogmatic guidelines that have due to the restrictions imposed by the economic and social realities of the new times, such as globalization, European integration, technological development, information society, the affirmation of supranational powers and the current geopolitical and geoeconomic seizure,” he said.
