PSD President Luis Montenegro said this Saturday that the Socialists António Costa and Pedro Nuno Santos “are the biggest scammers in Portuguese politics” because they are “always looking for the devil.”
In Barcelos, Braga district, during a meeting with the Social Democratic mayors of Montenegro, they also said that the devil “is a kind of fetish” of the PS, which the party calls “when it has nothing more to say.”
“Dr António Costa and Dr Pedro Nuno Santos are the biggest scammers in Portuguese politics because they are always looking for the devil. And they will continue to search,” he said.
For Montenegro, this devil “is a fantasy” of the socialists and “a defense of their incompetence and inability to implement decisions.”
“This is a way to divert attention from the main thing,” he said.
In her speech and in response to the words of the new socialist general secretary Pedro Nuno Santos, who admitted that “not everything was done well” in the last years of socialist rule, Montenegro classified the PS as “the party of whining, but which has no forgiveness.”
“These tears of the Socialist Party are the tears of those who have a guilty conscience,” he said, stressing that the PS “kept everything under control and missed the opportunity” and now wants to tell the Portuguese people that it has not been able to do this in eight years. “but he can do it in 10, or 12, or 14, or 16, or 20 and stay in government forever.”
According to the PSD leader, the socialism ruling in Portugal cannot last “even eight seconds.”
“Not eight more seconds of socialism ruling Portugal hand in hand with the Communist Party and the Left Bloc,” he stressed.
Montenegro said PS and Pedro Nuno Santos deserve a gold medal or even platinum in terms of Power Points, but reminded that what Portugal really needs is the ability to implement policies that will help the Portuguese people live better lives.
“We really have to change our lives,” he urged, taking stock of years of socialist rule that led to “maximum taxes and minimum public services.”
In front of a room full of mayors, Montenegro criticized the way the government has decentralized powers to local authorities.
“What has always been present in the work called decentralization in recent years is the view of local authorities as employees, as employees of the central administration in the territory. This disqualifies mayors,” he criticized.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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