Montenegro says it needs to be ‘scared’ to prevent young people from emigrating

PSD leader Luis Montenegro said this Saturday in the Algarve that Portugal is failing and that a start must be made to keep the country’s skilled young people who emigrate every year.

“We are failing, the country is failing. The country really needs a civil, political, business start. institutions and put them at the service of the country’s development,” he said.

Luis Montenegro spoke at the PSD Portuguese Communities Summer Meeting, held at a hotel in Albufeira, Faro District, attended by community representatives from Canada, South Africa, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Brazil.

The SDP leader denied that the departure of skilled youth to other countries could be due to the cuts imposed by the troika when Portugal was receiving bailouts, as that time had expired.

“And don’t come with a conversation, that’s all that was missing, that this is the business of the troika, that the troika has already left, it will be 10 years, this conversation is over,” he said. , emphasizing that this is “not a reason.”

Referring to a study that points to the departure of 200,000 young people from the country between 2000 and 2019, the PSD leader believes that one of the biggest tragedies that Portugal has experienced and experienced this Saturday is the emigration, especially of skilled youth.

“The investment we have made in the qualifications of young people, which we offer abroad for free, will amount to about 20 billion euros,” he said, based on a study that showed the investments made by the state over this period in the qualifications of young people. these young people at 18 million euros.

Lamenting that the country continues to invest heavily in order to “give it away to other regions” later, Luis Montenegro wondered how these people, “with the ability to exploit” wealth creation, innovation and economic growth, could be precisely those who leave countries.