The urgent reform of the country, the silence surrounding the presidential elections and the clarity in the return. Former Prime Minister explains everything.

The Government could have chosen to find a more stable framework from the outset. “I don’t know if it would be possible, but only when we try do we know.”

Pedro Passos Coelho argues that the executive led by Luís Montenegro should have signed a agreement of legislature with the right parliamentary. “Because the country has turned to the right and therefore, clearly, there is a large majority in Parliament on the right.”

Therefore, and after realizing whether the right has the “minimum cement” in the Assembly of the Republic, this agreement “would have to be sought between the He arrives ea Liberal Initiative. Is it possible to build a legislative agreement or not? I would say: Only time would demonstrate whether it was possible or not.”

Regarding the country’s current situation, Passos Coelho states that there is a “great urgency” em reform the country: “That’s the point. Politically, this is decisive, because the country spent too many years without looking at this dimension of public policy, reformist. Budgetary discipline was fulfilled that was not followed for many years and this obviously meant that we had serious problems that could have been avoided last year. Apparently, that lesson was learned well, and thankfully, so that we don’t have to bear the gigantic costs of this indiscipline again.”

Despite the praise for what has happened in recent years, be warned: “But one thing is that we are not on the verge of bankruptcy, another thing is let us waste as political conditions that people sought to give when they expressed a desire to change, precisely to reform the country, to return to a reformist vision. And the PSD won the elections with this mission”.

In this interview with , Passos says that he recently had “some invitations” – that refused, not to get involved in the campaign for the presidential elections.

“Also because I knew that there were many people who thought I should be a candidate for President of the Republic and I had no intention of doing so. I believe that the worst thing that can happen is for people to put themselves ahead of the public image when they are not interested in being seen or pushed into something they are not going to do”, he reveals.

The former prime minister has never done an interview lately, with a simple reason: “I never thought it made sense to schedule an interview to explain what I wouldn’t do. I think that’s reasonably the height of self-centeredness and nonsense. Nobody gives an interview saying what they’re not going to do. I didn’t intend to give an interview saying, ‘No, I don’t want to be a candidate for President of the Republic‘, that’s why I didn’t want to intervene, I didn’t want to participate.”

“But once that milestone is passed, I feel more comfortable now to be able to show up in contexts with more public visibility. I try to contribute to the public debate, I try, sometimes, to draw attention to things that I think may not be going so well” – despite there being people who “perceive a certain discomfort, or a certain nervousness” when they speak.

If he becomes a candidate for a political position again, he assures that he will be clear at that moment: “There is no concealment of what I do, on the contrary”.

“Now, if every time, due to a circumstance that occurs, due to a circumstantial situation, that is, because I understood that there was something important to say publicly about a specific matter, the question arises of knowing ‘then, But why are you talking? Why are you getting ready to do something? ‘, this becomes a kind of public addiction to reasoning” he analyzed.

The urgent reform of the country, the silence surrounding the presidential elections and the clarity in the return. Former Prime Minister explains everything.

The Government could have chosen to find a more stable framework from the outset. “I don’t know if it would be possible, but only when we try do we know.”

Pedro Passos Coelho argues that the executive led by Luís Montenegro should have signed a agreement of legislature with the right parliamentary. “Because the country has turned to the right and therefore, clearly, there is a large majority in Parliament on the right.”

Therefore, and after realizing whether the right has the “minimum cement” in the Assembly of the Republic, this agreement “would have to be sought between the He arrives ea Liberal Initiative. Is it possible to build a legislative agreement or not? I would say: Only time would demonstrate whether it was possible or not.”

Regarding the country’s current situation, Passos Coelho states that there is a “great urgency” em reform the country: “That’s the point. Politically, this is decisive, because the country spent too many years without looking at this dimension of public policy, reformist. Budgetary discipline was fulfilled that was not followed for many years and this obviously meant that we had serious problems that could have been avoided last year. Apparently, that lesson was learned well, and thankfully, so that we don’t have to bear the gigantic costs of this indiscipline again.”

Despite the praise for what has happened in recent years, be warned: “But one thing is that we are not on the verge of bankruptcy, another thing is let us waste as political conditions that people sought to give when they expressed a desire to change, precisely to reform the country, to return to a reformist vision. And the PSD won the elections with this mission”.

In this interview with , Passos says that he recently had “some invitations” – that refused, not to get involved in the campaign for the presidential elections.

“Also because I knew that there were many people who thought I should be a candidate for President of the Republic and I had no intention of doing so. I believe that the worst thing that can happen is for people to put themselves ahead of the public image when they are not interested in being seen or pushed into something they are not going to do”, he reveals.

The former prime minister has never done an interview lately, with a simple reason: “I never thought it made sense to schedule an interview to explain what I wouldn’t do. I think that’s reasonably the height of self-centeredness and nonsense. Nobody gives an interview saying what they’re not going to do. I didn’t intend to give an interview saying, ‘No, I don’t want to be a candidate for President of the Republic‘, that’s why I didn’t want to intervene, I didn’t want to participate.”

“But once that milestone is passed, I feel more comfortable now to be able to show up in contexts with more public visibility. I try to contribute to the public debate, I try, sometimes, to draw attention to things that I think may not be going so well” – despite there being people who “perceive a certain discomfort, or a certain nervousness” when they speak.

If he becomes a candidate for a political position again, he assures that he will be clear at that moment: “There is no concealment of what I do, on the contrary”.

“Now, if every time, due to a circumstance that occurs, due to a circumstantial situation, that is, because I understood that there was something important to say publicly about a specific matter, the question arises of knowing ‘then, But why are you talking? Why are you getting ready to do something? ‘, this becomes a kind of public addiction to reasoning” he analyzed.