The president of the PSD said on Tuesday that the Social Democrats “will be good at making opposition” and then they will be “much better” to govern the country, which needs “scrutiny” to explain the things that happen.
????????Us [PSD] we are going to be good at creating opposition, so that later we can be much better at running the country. And the country needs that opposition, it needs the demand, it needs vigilance, it needs scrutiny. The things that happen that are not well explained must be explained. And we will not get tired of demanding explanations from the Government, from the Prime Minister. Above all, what is important and what is happening in Portugal”, said Luís Montenegro.
The PSD leader, who was speaking in Guarda on Tuesday night, during a speech at the swearing-in ceremony for the bodies of the PSD District Political Commission, referred to the news in recent days about “a way of being and to exercise the leadership of the Government and governmental functions in a very relevant matter”, related to the financial system and the central bank independencethat works “as a kind of regulator of the sector”.
Specifically, he pointed out that the former governor of the Bank of Portugal “denounced that the President of the Government wanted to intervene and interfere directly in the exercise, precisely of that independent function, in terms of the attribution, or not, of suitability to a person to be part of management of a banking institution.
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“We are [PSD) não nos vamos eximir a exigir do senhor primeiro-ministro o esclarecimento cabal dessa situação“, garantiu Montenegro.
Acrescentou, ainda, que noutra situação, aparentemente, “terá havido um esquema premeditado de desvalorização de um ativo financeiro no caso do BANIF que estava num processo de venda e que nas costas do regulador e nas costas do país, aparentemente, o Governo e o primeiro-ministro, andavam já, em Bruxelas e em Frankfurt, a apresentar o cenário da resolução”.
The president of the PSD said that the elements of his party are not protagonists of the opposition “more of protest”, nor of “saying that everything is wrong”, of “criticizing for the sake of criticizing”, nor “of those who propose a parliamentary inquiry”. commissions at the rate of the week.
“But we may even have a parliamentary inquiry into this matter. I don’t know. But we, for now, today, we ask the prime minister specific questions???????? He’s going to have to say it. What did he say, if he said, to the former governor of the Bank of Portugal, about the recognition of the suitability or not of the engineer Isabel dos Santos, to be a director of BIC, after Eurobic, ”she said.
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And he added: “The President of the Government will have to say if he was already putting the resolution or pre-resolution scenario on the table with the European Central Bank and the European Commission, which meant that Banif was not sold at a price that the market was attributing it (…) and if that was not intentional”.
“And if this was intentional and resulted in the spending of many millions of euros that the Portuguese could have used for other purposes, we will naturally stop everyone who intervened, whether they are government officials or in other roles, even in the Bank of Portugal itself. Let it be very clear”, underlined Luís Montenegro.
In his speech, the national leader of the PSD also mentioned that the country “needs a political alternative, it needs a new direction” and “think about the future of the territory and the future of the most important thing, which is the people.”
Source: Observadora
