BE/Azores said this Sunday that it was not clear how the regional PS wants to take “the Azores forward”, lamenting the opening of that party to dialogue with the right-wing parties with a view to a future government.
“In its political and strategic content, this speech is not very clear. There is a desire to move the Azores forward, but here it was not made explicit how to get there”, said Aurora Ribeiro, from BE/Açores, in statements to Lusa, at the closing session of the XVIII Regional Congress, which ended this Sunday in the city of Horta. , Island of Faial.
The blocista was surprised by the fact that, in the strategic motion of the socialist leader Vasco Cordeiro, the PS Azores “shows openness to negotiate a majority with other parties, including those of the right.”
“Another fact that seems strange to us, and that is mentioned in the motion, is that the PS/Azores is open to negotiating a majority with other parties, including parties that are part of the arch of government, namely, the CDS or Initiative Liberal. [IL]right-wing parties,” he observed.
For Aurora Ribeiro, in the PS motion, the “only explicit exclusion [a um diálogo tendo em vista uma maioria para formar Governo] It’s from the Basta party.”
“This fills us with concern. It is not the path that the Azoreans need,” she said.
The issue, he added, is that “doors are being opened to right-wing parties and parties that are in power and that the PS criticizes.”
“There is a lack of coherence here and, as a left-wing party, we do not consider it to be a way out of the situation we find ourselves in now,” he stressed.
The leader of the PS/Azores said this Sunday that “a new cycle” has begun and “the best of PS/Azores has returned” for the future of the Region, because the party has the “responsibility and legitimacy of not leaving behind the Azores”. ..”
“We have the historical and political legitimacy and the responsibility not to let the Azores be left behind. We have the responsibility to move the Azores forward”, said Vasco Cordeiro at the 18th Regional Congress, which ended this Sunday in the city of Horta, Faial Island.
After the PS spent 24 years in the government of the Region, and having lost power to the PSD/CDS-PP/PPM coalition, Vasco Cordeiro has “a dream and an ambition” – of “freedom, solidarity and respect” in the future of the Azores.
The leader of the PS/Azores, re-elected in April for a fourth term as president of the regional structure, with 97.7% of the votes, warned that politics in the Azores “runs the risk of becoming more of a pitched battle than in a serious debate .about the future”.
PS was the party with the most votes in the 2020 regional elections, electing 25 parliamentarians, but lost the absolute majority it had held in the Region for 24 years.
PSD, CDS-PP and PPM, which together represent 26 deputies, signed an agreement to form a government.
The coalition also signed a parliamentary advocacy agreement with Chega and with the independent deputy Carlos Furtado (ex-Chega) and the PSD an agreement with IL.
The Legislative Assembly of the Azores is made up of 57 deputies and, in the current legislature, 25 are from the PS, 21 from the PSD, three from the CDS-PP, two from the PPM, two from the BE, one from the Liberal Initiative, one from the PAN, one from Chega and one independent deputy (chosen by Chega).
Source: Observadora
