The Environment Minister, Duarte Cordeiro, says that he regrets the decision to dismiss the Infrastructure Minister, Pedro Nuno Santos, for whom he feels “admiration”, but says that the Executive has “all the conditions to do his job”.
The statements were made during a press conference on energy prices, during which the minister was asked several times about the resignation of Pedro Nuno Santos and the government’s conditions for remaining in office. Duarte Cordeiro preferred to leave all these answers for a final statement in which he highlighted the “closeness” between the two ministries —Environment and Infrastructure— in rail and port policy or in the decarbonization of mobility. “These are traces left by the minister, work that will naturally be continued by the Government,” he said.
Duarte Cordeiro began by “regretting” the decision of the Minister of Infrastructure, noting that there was a “great proximity from the point of view of work” of the two ministries. “Obviously we have to respond to the expectations that the Portuguese have regarding their life, their day-to-day life, but also a set of transformations that are decisive for our future”, such as the energy transition and the environmental transition, he pointed out. observed.
For the minister, the Executive has conditions to continue in office. “The Government has all the conditions to do its job,” he said, to then underline that the Executive is supported in the Assembly of the Republic by a party with an absolute majority.
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Source: Observadora
