PSD, SDS and PPM have already signed an agreement on the Democratic Alliance

Luis Montenegro, Nuno Melo and Gonçalo da Camara Pereira have already signed an agreement that gives rise to the Democratic Alliance. The agreement was signed this Sunday at a ceremony at the Porto customs office, where a representative of the independent candidates to be included in the joint and legislative lists will also speak.

The agreement, signed by the presidents of the PSD Luis Montenegro, the PSD-PP Nuno Melo and the NPM Gonçalo da Câmara Pereira, lists the AD’s priorities as achieving high levels of growth, increasing revenues, and preserving and reviving the economy. A social state of continuing decline.

In a room completely packed with people and many people standing at the doors who could not enter, the highlight was the presence of some famous people, such as, for example, former ministers Leonor Belesa and José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, as well as the president of the municipal council. Chamber of Porto, independent Rui Moreira.

The text reiterates that this coalition agreement between the three parties will include legislative elections on March 10 and European elections on June 9, an alliance “with the aim of offering Portugal the necessary political changes and an ambitious government, a reformist government.” , moderate, stable and majority.”

The coalition agreement stipulates that the Democratic Alliance’s electoral program, which promises a “positive” campaign, will have contributions from three parties and independents, and on seats it only says that the legislative and European lists “will be based on an overall weighting of the results received by the three parties in the previous elections, respecting the law of parity and including independent candidates.

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Representing the independent movement, former President of the Order of Physicians Miguel Guimarães he was the first to speak out and justify his presence in this coalition by “exercising the right of citizenship.”

Gonçalo da Camara Pereiraleader of the People’s Monarchist Party, guaranteed that “The Democratic Alliance today represents the hope of victory over the PS and its invention.”

“PS policies are holding our country back,” he said.

Already Nuno Meloleader of the CDS-PP, begins by saying that “the next elections will not be about a choice between parties and coalitions, but rather an opportunity for the Portuguese to respond to a possible referendum on the state the country has reached.”

“For three years, Pedro Nuno Santos has controlled housing policy, so he is the personification of the destruction of housing,” he assured.

“The Portuguese will have to decide whether they want Portugal’s youth unemployment rate to exceed 20%,” he said, blaming Antonio Costa and Pedro Nuno Santos.

According to Nuno Melo, when the choice is between choosing a strictly egalitarian project or a reform-innovative project, the Portuguese cannot have any doubts when voting.

“Today the choice is between continuation of what we have had for eight years or a project that is stable, reliable and with capable personnel. If the electorate looks at the center-right political space, then there is only one such project, and that is AD,” he added.

Nuno Melo also recalled that whenever the CDS-PP and PSD united in legislative elections, they won the elections, predicting that this would happen again.

Regarding the crisis in the country, Nuno Melo stated that “he was not born in Belém, but in São Bento, at the hand of the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State, whom he accompanied.”

The centrist recalled that the PS Government led the country for eight years, not one, two, three or four, but eight, so the current crisis is not the fault of the SDP or the SDS-NP, but rather the PS. .

Luis Montenegro speaks last. “We are here now to give Portugal hope and confidence,” he said at the official signing ceremony of the Democratic Alliance.

He states that it is a project that provides “working conditions for the active middle generation that is so often forgotten and destroyed” but also “prepares the present and future of those who are no longer active.” To this end, AD proposes to “evaluate pensions, especially the lowest ones, without forgetting the minimum income for all pensioners.”

According to the PSD leader, the country is in a dead end and stagnation, but it is a project of “trust, hope, full of soul and motivation,” adding that the country lacks “good government.”

“In a society where a person who works has less income than one who does not work, it is a society that does not grow, that has neither merit nor wealth. This is a poor society,” he says. “This is a government project where everyone matters, I don’t want poverty to be a normal state.”

He also attacks the Socialist Party, stating that “the government collapsed due to the sheer incompetence of its members.” “For all those who believed in the Socialist Party and became disillusioned, this project is for such people.”

“AD’s political project is not fueled by threats or hostility and, unlike our opponents, is not driven by blame-shifting, resentment or childish fear-mongering. Unlike the PS, it is not a resabiado political movement,” he said.

“Today there are many of us in this room – this room that is seething and seething with enthusiasm – tomorrow there will be more of us, there will be millions of us, we will win the elections and transform Portugal,” he called.