The Minister of Defense said on Wednesday that Chega is “disappointing his own electorate” by distancing himself from the negotiations on the State Budget, stating only that he is “concerned about who can be part of the solution” to achieve the approval of the document.
On the sidelines of a visit to Feira da Luz in Lisbon, the leader of the CDS-PP and head of the National Defence portfolio, Nuno Melo, said that he is currently concerned about “who can be part of the solution” and not with those who “clearly want to present themselves to the Portuguese as a problem.” devalue the withdrawal of André Ventura’s party from the negotiations on the State Budget for 2025 (OE2025).
[O Chega] “It is a party that first said that the government would have to accept life imprisonment, and nobody paid much attention to this nonsense. That is why it changed the bar and said that it would only approve the budget as long as we had a referendum on migration, and then it realized that it had not had much luck with that either,” he added.
The leader of the centrists abandoned the call for “parties to be part of the solution” and “show willingness” to negotiate so that “Portugal has political stability”, concluding that Chega is disappointing his own electorate by not seeking that same stability.
Nuno Melo also said that the parties’ desire to present themselves as part of the solution does not necessarily mean a rapprochement with the PS, but that the Government will listen to the parties based on the Government programme of the Democratic Alliance, “which won the election.”
We want a solution that is good for Portugal, and this solution that is good for Portugal is a solution that goes through the State Budget, because with this approval many Portuguese people will have a much better life from that day on,” he argued.
Questioned about whether the solution for the stability of the country, faced with a failed budget, will be that of a country governed by twelfths, Nuno Melo delegated to the leader of the executive, stating that it is an assessment that Luis Montenegro must make and that, At this time, there is no focus on scenarios other than the approval of OE2025.
Source: Observadora
