Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke in Belém, after the interventions of the protagonists of the Airport episode (from the revocation to the “serious error” without dismissal), to speak for the first time about the friction between António Costa and Minister Pedro Nuno Santos and underline that the President of the Government is the main and last person in charge of his ministers, regardless of whether the election is “more or less happy”, as well as the assessment of each circumstance.
Less than 24 hours after Pedro Nuno Santos admitted, in an interview with RTP, that he had not informed the President of the Republic about the order regarding the country’s new airport solution, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa himself addressed the country in a terse statement, without asking questions, where he left the responsibility (as well as future successes) in the hands of the prime minister.
The Infrastructure Minister remains in the Government (“obviously we want to overcome this moment, resume working together”) and did not wait for the Prime Minister to refer to the episode as an “overcome issue”, in which there was a “ obsolete issue. “serious mistake”, with the proviso that “even politicians are human and make mistakes”. Once peace was signed between Costa and Pedro Nuno, the President of the Republic still had a word missing: “The President of the Government chooses his collaborators.”
“It is the prime minister who must see, at all times, if they are the ones in better conditions to be successful in your goals. The prime minister is responsible for the happiest or least happy election and the evaluation that you do at each momenthappier or less happy, of their collaborators in terms of the best possibilities they have to achieve the objectives”, stressed the head of state.
Brief in words, the President of the Republic made his own summary in a few seconds: “Just like that, I have nothing more to say, it seems clear to me: request revoked; fastest possible solution agreed, clear and consistent [para o aeroporto]; Y chosen team by the prime minister with the best conditions to pursue this goal”.
Regarding the plan itself, which has been revoked for now, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke for the Portuguese to say that “they hope that the future meets three conditions: a relatively quick decision, that it be agreed (especially since it is a solution for decades ) and consistent.
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Source: Observadora
