The parliamentary leader of the PSD, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, considered this Friday that the article by the former president of the Republic Cavaco Silva, published in the newspaper Público, is “very important”, converging on the criticisms that the president of the Government has shown “lack of authority”.
Speaking to journalists at the Assembly of the Republic, Miranda Sarmento reacted to the article by Aníbal Cavaco Silva, published this Friday in the newspaper Público, in which Former President of the Republic accuses the Government of “immobility”, of being “disoriented” and of not having “reformist will”.
In the reading of the parliamentary leader of the PSD, the article in question “is very important for the country to reflect on it” and “issues warnings about the conduct of governance and the future of the country.”
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Distinguishing the two axes, Miranda Sarmento began by emphasizing that, with regard to the future of the country, Cavaco Silva points out “the lack of structural reforms that prevent the country from growing from the economic point of view and that he can recover positions that, however, he has been sinking, almost walking to the last position from the point of view of the 27″ table.
Professor Cavaco Silva once again warns that the Government needs to undertake structural reforms to increase the competitiveness and productivity of the Portuguese economy”, he stressed.
Regarding governance management, the Social Democratic parliamentary leader stressed that Cavaco Silva “issues warnings that it is necessary for the Government to coordinate itself, for the Government to take direction and for the Government, in fact, to initiate governance without cases, without coordination and with a well-defined political orientation“.
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Asked if, like Cavaco Silva, the PSD also considers that the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, should have been fired, Miranda Sarmento stressed that the former head of state “listed a series of examples to show what has been the lack of authority and guidance of the prime minister”.
The leadership of the Government and the conduct of politics belong to the Prime Minister. And so cases are coming up, but the one who lacks authority and who lacks direction and coordination is the Prime Minister,” he charged.
Asked if, given the frequency of public interventions by Cavaco Silva, the former head of state is not “taking space for the opposition”, Miranda Sarmento replied: “On the contrary”.
The extraordinary experience that Professor Cavaco Silva has, both from an academic and political point of view —he was Minister of Finance, Prime Minister for ten years and President of the Republic—, we are a voice of the country to alert us of the structural problems that the country has“, he defended.
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Miranda Sarmento reiterated that Cavaco Silva’s article also warns about “the poor governance” that the country has had “in the last seven years and, in particular, in these last six months, in which it would be expected that a majority government would take absolute”. another direction and another coordination that, unfortunately, it is not having”.
In these statements to journalists, Miranda Sarmento was also asked about the interannual inflation rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which, according to data released this Friday by the INE, will have increased to 9.3% in Septembercompared to 8.9% in August.
The inflation rate jumps to 9.3% in September in Portugal. It is a maximum since 1992.
In the opinion of the Social Democratic parliamentary leader, the data show that the The country continues to have a “serious problem of inflation, which the PSD has been warning about since the beginning of the year, and even before the start of the war in Ukraine.”“.
“It is important that the Government use the instruments it has to support, on the one hand, families with fewer resources, but also the middle class, because families are, as I have said, under a tenacious double: on the one hand, inflation with rising prices of goods and services; on the other hand, (…) the rise in interest rates and the rise in mortgage loan installments”, he said.
Source: Observadora
