In case of doubt, it is better to keep silent. This is more or less the analysis made by the leaders and deputies of the PS on the controversy that surrounded the Minister of Economy, António Costa Silva, for having decided to publicly give an opinion on the IRC that the Government wanted to keep private. But silence will not be advisable only for the minister himself: in the PS there is no lack of voices discontent with the way the case was handled, with a number of Socialists quick to publicly discredit the minister, and admitting that the casts of the IRC’s descent must be really serious. weighted.
As a result of the case that has been going on for several days -and which this Wednesday was commented on by Costa Silva himself-, PS leaders and deputies assure the Observer that the minister did not know how to handle the matter. Some people just say “I shouldn’t have spoken” from a position that was not, at least until now, assumed by the Executive; in the leadership of the party it is admitted, even “without drama”, that “it was not expressed well”; and there are those who criticize the lack of “political sense” of a minister who arrives look like a “commentator”.
But the discomfort goes further and has to do with the coordination party and government. The leaders themselves did not like to see the successive disavowals to the governor, who created even more noise and called attention to what could have been nothing more than a slip.
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Source: Observadora
