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Marta Temido speaking after PS’s victory in the European Championships
Former minister remembers that the prime minister had announced that his Government would carry out reforms. PS made a mistake, in Costa’s time.
The former Minister of Health, Marta Temido, doubts that the health pactidea of António José Seguro, president of the Republic.
“The state we have reached in terms of health means that everything is very difficult. I have no doubt about the initiative; the success of the initiative, I have that in mind.” many doubts.”
There are “visions based on prejudices and not on facts”, as in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in the area of Health: “It is no longer possible to hear that the PPP are not legally possible – because they are!”
The State may, on a supplementary and temporary basis, enter into agreements with private entities. “I was the one who signed the diploma that regulates the way PPPs are carried out”, he recalls, in , while accusing the government of looking for an alibi”.
SNS response
The former head of the Ministry of Health considers that the National Health Service (SNS) “with the rules it has, can’t give an answer”.
“You are not attacking the root of the problem. The Minister of Health does not see reality and looks for alibis”, says Temido.
Marta Temido praises o Government in one aspect: changes in the doctors’ regime workers, that “go in the right direction” – do not create a war with service providers. Because “we cannot continue to have these institutions functioning on a task basis.”
Montenegro “Maria goes with the others”
Luís Montenegro a strategy motion, which is the basis of his candidacy for PSD leadership. In this document, it is stated that the PSD “will be faithful to its commitment not to have a government solution with neither Chega nor the Socialist Party”.
It’s Maria’s tactic “go with them all, go with whoever you think will give you the greatest gain circumstantially”, she accuses
“Maria’s go-with-the-others tactic won’t work for a Government that announced itself as a Government that was coming to carry out reforms”, he warns.
For the former minister, “it is not possible to have stability in a relationship with this randomness and little trust that the relationship gives us”.
Temido says Montenegro is jeopardize a good relationship with the PS and question principles.
Already labor law, for example: “He made a colossal mistake because no one asked for this reform. He didn’t realize that he couldn’t carry out this reform without having the support of the union structures. He allowed cleavages to be created. And he made the situation practically irreversible.”
PS got it wrong
Looking at her past in Government, Marta Temido admits that the PS could have been more “brave”for example on the recognition of Palestine.
In immigration, too: “I think this was one of the issues on which our Governments, at a certain point, lost their footing in the face of reality.”
When he led the Government, António Costa’s PS “did not count on reality changing so quickly and that public services would not have the capacity to accommodate what was a population explosion”.
“O PS you made a mistake: you didn’t read the reality”, he admits.
Pedro Nuno Santos
Marta Temido does not hide criticism of Pedro Nuno Santos: “Whenever a party’s readings sometimes allow themselves to be dragged along by vanity, sometimes by egos and sometimes for the taste of protagonism… This is what often happens to us.”
“Sometimes, they are not ideological disputes, they are territorial disputes”, he analyzes, saying that Pedro Nuno had the “misfortune, the circumstance, of allowing a sticker to be stuck on his forehead, which is the radical sticker” – and this does not bring him “many friends”.
But, for Temido, Pedro Nuno Santos is “much less radical than what it seems. How the José Luís Carneiro is much less moderate than what it seems.”
When Pedro Nuno was more genuine, “he did better. When he tried to exercise moderation imposed by internal critics, he did less well. And he was a victim of his untimely manner.”
