João Cotrim Figueiredo considers António Costa’s order “serious”, which refers to the need for prior validation by the State in all payments to Endesa. In the eyes of the leader of the Liberal Initiative, the PS is making “propaganda” that will harm the Portuguese in the future.
“The order that the Prime Minister signed means socialist propaganda, it is from advertising What is it about when the government wants hide that this mechanism allows for lower electricity prices compared to European prices at the moment, but will lead to prices higher than those in Europe in the future”, explains the liberal president, stressing that those who have “the lowest prices today ” will pay “higher prices” in the future. “Nothing is free, someone always ends up paying,” he warns in a statement sent to the newsrooms.
Furthermore, IL also accuses the PS of “socialist arrogance”, emphasizing that the option of the socialists before the declarations of a private company was “to retaliate”, “forcing to validate hundreds of invoices each month”, which, he anticipates, “this will cause additional delays in payments”. “And he retaliates by threatening to switch suppliers, presuming that there will be improper business practices in the language of that order,” he adds.
“It is the modern version of ‘who messes with the PS, takes it away’”, emphasizes João Cotrim Figueiredo, with accusations that “arrogance and propaganda are the two weapons left to a government that is incompetent“.
Ventura challenges Costa to interrupt vacations to explain light rises
On Sunday, the leader of Chega, André Ventura, had challenged the prime minister to temporarily interrupt his vacations to explain to the Portuguese what the rise in electricity prices will be in August.
“We knew there was a risk of electricity going up 40% in August. Today the Government came to say that it was not quite like that, but it did not clarify much, and the President of the Government should interrupt his vacations to explain this”, said the president of Chega.
Although the secretary of state for the environment and energy, João Galamba, denied this increase, André Ventura stressed that the issue is not clear and that the official did not say what the increase would be.
Source: Observadora
