The President of the Republic understands that the Portuguese “chose to give victory to the moderate sector” and not “to the radical sector of the other hemisphere”. The legislature lasts four years, but “for what is very urgent and for what was promised” the Government’s time “is short”. But the mission is not impossible, he added.
The Portuguese chose to “give victory to the moderate sector” and not “to the radical sector of the other hemisphere”, considers the President of the Republic. The legislature lasts four years, but at the inauguration ceremony of the new Government led by Luís Montegro, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa warned that “for what is urgent and for what was promised in the campaign“the government’s time “It’s too short“.
The President of the Republic defended a emergency plan for the NHS “without forgetting the stabilization of the management model”; in the dwelling, “greater openness to the private and social, attention to the middle classes, “without forgetting those who need public housing”; in Education “pacification of school yearsespecially in public schools, without forgetting teachers”; and also the acceleration of the PRR, focus on Portugal 2030, location of the airport, TAP’s solution, investment in the railway, and “more visible effectiveness of the transparency entity in fight against corruption”.
On another, “but very urgent” level, the valorization of military status, the “end of discrimination between the various security forces” or overcoming blockages and misunderstandings that hinder the economy, society, justice and democracy. Stressing that the new Government has the solidarity and cooperative support from the President of the Republic – “who never bargained for it with his predecessor” – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa added that, not counting on the majority support of the Assembly of the Republic, the new Executive “has to build it with more likely convergences on regime issues: foreign policy, defense, European, financial with international repercussions”, he said.
In other areas of less likely convergence, “dialogue must be much more thorough and demanding”. “For decisions such as structural reforms and State budgets, these requirements are even more extensive”, and the Executive must “win over many more Portuguese people”.
The “short” time was the last of the reasons presented by the President of the Republic to defend that the mandate “seems obvious but is complex”.
The first was the international context, warning that it is necessary to “maintain the coherence and political-financial credibility that so much work has given us to create and recreate”.
The second was internal economic and social governance, with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arguing that “where we don’t have problems we shouldn’t create them”, protecting the “consensus” on more growth, investment, exports, balancing public accounts or paying attention to debt public.
The third was the “base of political support”, a point in which he defended the aforementioned “most likely convergences on regime issues”.
“Is it an impossible mission? I don’t think so,” he said.
News updated at 7:10 pm with more information
