Iniciativa Liberal responds to Marcelo: “More than pruning”, Portugal needs a “new tree”

The President of the Liberal Initiative (IL), Rui Rocha, defended this Saturday in Porto in response to the speech of the President of the Republic on June 10 that “more than pruning”, the country needs a “new tree”. “.

“The tree is infected and therefore more than the pruning recommended by the President of the Republic, we need a new tree in the country,” Rui Rocha said this Saturday at the IL national headquarters in Porto. to the speech of Marcelo Rebelo de Souza.

This Saturday, in his speech at the military ceremony to celebrate the Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities in Peso da Régua (Vila Real District), the President of the Republic considered it necessary to “cut off the dead branches that reach the whole tree”, warning that, only if you don’t want it, “Portugal won’t last forever.”

Rui Rocha interpreted the words of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, understanding “branches that need to be cut as ministers”, in “a metaphor that the President of the Republic wanted to make”, questioning, in addition to permanence in the government, the Minister of Infrastructure Joao Galamba, as well as the Minister of Agriculture, María do Seu Antunes or Foreign Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho.

“There are several branches of this government that are not viable branches, they have already shown that they do not have the conditions to be in government,” he defended.

According to the liberal leader, a new “tree” is needed “which will restore the confidence of the Portuguese, bring transparency, bring economic growth, open up opportunities for the Portuguese and therefore be able to reverse this cycle of degradation, decay, in which the country is immersed.”

Continuing with references to botany, Rui Rocha also considered “PS and his government” to be “a kind of weed that occupies everything around it”, such as the state apparatus, justice or economic regulators.

Responding to a question about Infrastructure Minister João Galamba being targeted this Saturday in Peso da Régua, the Liberal leader said the minister was “used by the Prime Minister to provoke” the President of the Republic and the country.

For Rui Rocha, the Portuguese “answered today [sábado]noisy, to this provocation.

“The prime minister has an absolute majority, he thinks that gives him absolute power, he doesn’t listen to anyone, he doesn’t listen to the opposition, he doesn’t listen to the president of the republic, he doesn’t listen to Portuguese,” he thought.

The MP also said that it was necessary to “come to the conclusion that the problem is no longer in the industries”, “to prevent Portugal from growing as it could and should” or “to make a negative contribution to the development of the country”, but rather “a person who is a common for all this, who is prime minister”, António Costa.

Regarding Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s speech, Rui Rocha also said that IL “agrees” with the “diagnosis” made by the head of state that sometimes there are “more reasons to leave than to stay” in the country, poverty and “the country’s failure to provide growth.”