The former Minister of Finance, Luís Campos e Cunha, warns that the PS “will walk towards irrelevance” under the leadership of Pedro Nuno Santos, whom he accuses of being unreliable. In statements to Rádio Observador, the former socialist minister gave the example of the controversial statements of the now general secretary of the PS about public debt, made in 2011.
“There was an all-time low in our debt. Which calls into question people like Pedro Nuño Santos, who fought so that we would not pay the debt, with total irresponsibility and complete ignorance of the issue. An irresponsible child. I don’t trust Pedro Nuño Santos“said the former Minister of Finance, who served just four months, in 2005, in the first government of José Sócrates.
Campos and Cunha. “I don’t trust Pedro Nuño Santos”
Luís Campos e Cunha gave another example of what he considers the irresponsibility of the current leadership of the PS: voting on proposals with budgetary impact together with Chega. Asked about the possibility of the two parties approving, in the special discussion phase of the State Budget, joint proposals against the will of the Government parties, Campos e Cunha stated that it would not be surprising if this happened, especially because “it is not It would be the first time that the PS and Chega vote for proposals in the same direction, with irresponsible proposals.”
Proposals, he highlighted, “that the PS had said a year ago that it would not vote on, such as the case of the tolls in the old SCUT.”
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For Campos and Cunha, Pedro Nuno Santos “is transforming the Socialist Party into a kind of Left Bloc”, making the party “go towards irrelevance if it continues like this.” The former minister hopes that “other forces”, such as Sérgio Sousa Pinto, Álvaro Beleza or Francisco Assis “(who are part of a group that follows Mário Soares) return to the top, since they would not fuel this type of irresponsibility on the part of the current leadership of the Socialist Party.”
Source: Observadora
