Montenegro says ‘the king goes naked’ and that the ‘worst of the three’ Costa governments are unamended

This Sunday, the PSD president defended that “the king walks naked” and that the “worst of the three” António Costa governments are unamended, and one of the “mortal sins” is the episode at the airport with Pedro Nuno Santos.

Luis Montenegro spoke tonight at the May 1st TSD dinner – Social Democratic Workers in Alges, Oeiras, bringing back the idea that he championed a few hours earlier during a visit to Ovibeha, that “this government has failed, this government has not has amendments, this government has come to an end.

“Today is the time and day when we must say with all clarity that the King of Portugal goes naked,” he defended.

Although this António Costa government no longer has “the same amendment”, Luis Montenegro had a “problem” that PS President Carlos César ignored in an interview he gave to Público.

In an interview, Carlos Cesar said the prime minister should assess whether there is a need for “refreshment” in government, given that “great rigor and discipline” is needed to avoid cases like those involving TAP.

“This government has a coordinator – I wanted to say a leader, but, unfortunately, there is no leader – it has a coordinator or a responsible person, and this coordinator and responsible person have not worked for eight years yet. going to do something different from what he has been doing for the last seven or eight years,” he said.

The question that arises for the SDP leader is “how things will change in the government, this is a refreshment” with “the same coordinator and responsible person who could never do this eight years ago and who even got worse with the weather.”

“This government, which is Dr. António Costa’s third, is the worst of the three,” he denounced, referring to the fact that the prime minister “selected exactly everyone he wanted, brought the whole party into government, flooded the government with the socialist machine “. .

For Luis Montenegro, “the concept that this country belongs to the PS is in the head of the government coordinator and is transmitted to all those who have even the slightest touch of power.”

“That’s why cabinets do the stupid things that we’ve seen, because the example comes from above, when the prime minister is disavowed by the minister, and one and the other say it was a communication error,” he said.

In the PSD president’s analysis, the episode with former infrastructure minister Pedro Nuno Santos about the Lisbon airport decision showed that António Costa “did not have the authority and sent a message to the whole government”.

“There are two deadly sins. The very constitution of the government and the second it. This moment marked the path of withering, reducing the political authority of the prime minister, and he no longer has time to recover, ”he defended.

Costa “could try” because “he has legal grounds to do so”, but according to Montenegro, “he won’t be able to do it again”.

“I really wanted, for the sake of the country, that the government and the prime minister could be reborn, as required by the president of the PS, but I think it was more of a desire, it was more of an internal cry within the PS than exactly the action that will have in the near future big consequences in Portugal,” he said.