This Monday, the Prime Minister downplayed the way in which the President of the Republic addressed the warnings to his Minister of Territorial Cohesion about the implementation of the structural funds, considering that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has “Moments of creativity”.
This position was conveyed by António Costa in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on his first of two days of participation in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27), after being asked about the tone used by the head of state on last Saturday. , in Trofa, Porto district, to broadcast a series of public warnings to Minister Ana Abrunhosa.
Among other statements, the President of the Republic warned her that he will be “very attentive” and that he will not forgive her if he discovers that the rate of execution of European funds is not what he believes it should be.
“I’m honest, on Saturday I hung up to rest. So I didn’t directly hear the words. [do Presidente da República]”, António Costa began responding, provoking the laughter of the journalists.
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“Yes, yes, don’t laugh, just because I am prime minister I also have the right to rest,” the leader of the Executive reacted shortly after.
Then, the Prime Minister stressed that he has lived with the current President of the Republic for almost seven years.
“I began my duties with the previous President of the Republic [Cavaco Silva], but I have a long experience with the current one. Each one has their style, each one has their way of acting, each one has their way of interpreting constitutional powers, since our Constitution is quite clear, although adjustable to the personality of each one of those who exercise these functions,” he said. . .
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From the perspective of António Costa, “all the Portuguese have valued the way in which the President of the Republic has performed his dutieswhich has moments of greater creativity”.
“But I think this is normal, nobody takes it the wrong way. the lady minister [Ana Abrunhosa]By the way, he said that he did not take it the wrong way, that he was there and perfectly understood the intervention in the context of the informality with which everything took place,” he added.
Source: Observadora
