The president of the CDS-PP, Nuno Melo, asked the President of the Republic on Thursday to dissolve the Assembly of the Republic and call early legislative elections, considering that the “socialist cycle has ended, the Government is exhausted.”
“The socialist cycle is over, the government is exhausted, the country is again in a swamp, which calls into question the normal functioning of the basic institutions of the regime,” said the MEP in a note released to the media.
In the same note, the CDS-PP “appeals to the President of the Republic to dissolve parliament and call early elections, giving the Portuguese a floor to resolve this political crisis.”
This charge comes after two more resignations in the Government, this time by the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, and the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Hugo Santos Mendes, announced last night.
The march of the two leaders occurred 24 hours after the Minister of Finance, Fernando Medina, dismissed the Secretary of State for Finance, less than a month after the inauguration of Alexandra Reis and after four days of controversy over the 500,000 euros in compensation paid by TAP, supervised by Pedro Nuno Santos.
“If it is true that Minister Pedro Nuno Santos and State Secretaries Hugo Mendes and Alexandra Reis resigned, the matter is far from over,” defended the CDS-PP leader.
Nuno Melo considered that “this PS government is the government with the most absolutely unstable absolute majority of democracy in Portugal”, and maintained that “ten changes in the governing cast in nine months of life show a government exhausted, with the normal problems of the old governments. of years”.
“Since he took office, in March, the Prime Minister has been replacing ministers and state secretaries on average more than one per month, while the Government adds serious cases, sometimes with criminal relevance and institutional promiscuity, biweekly. For much less, other governments fell in Portugal, ”he stressed.
The centrist MEP also defended that “a government that is in the news because of the cases and falls of ministers and state secretaries, while families and companies bear the highest taxes in history, and Portugal is being dragged to the bottom of the list of the least grow in the European Union, no longer serves the general interest”. “Portugal needs another solution, one that gives confidence to the Portuguese and reverses the current moment of disbelief and instability,” said Nuno Melo.
Source: Observadora
