CDS-PP President Nuno Melo this Thursday asked the President of the Republic to dissolve the Assembly of the Republic and call early legislative elections, given that “the socialist cycle is over, the government is exhausted.”
“The socialist cycle is over, the government is exhausted, the country is again in a swamp, which calls into question the normal functioning of the main institutions of the regime,” the MEP’s note circulated to the media says.
At the same time, the CDS-PP “calls on the President of the Republic to dissolve parliament and call early elections, giving the floor to the Portuguese to resolve this political crisis.”
The position follows two more government resignations, this time by Infrastructure and Housing Minister Pedro Nuno Santos and Secretary of State for Infrastructure Hugo Santos Mendez, announced last night.
The departure of the two leaders came 24 hours after Finance Minister Fernando Medina fired Finance Minister, less than a month after Alexandra Reis took office, and after four days of wrangling over €500,000 in compensation paid to TAP under Pedro Nuno Santos.
“If it is true that Minister Pedro Nuno Santos and Secretaries of State Hugo Mendez and Alexandra Reis have resigned, then the matter is far from settled,” the CDS-PP leader said.
Nuno Melu believed that “this PS government is the government with the most absolutely unstable absolute majority of democracy in Portugal”, arguing that “10 changes in the ruling composition in nine months of life show an exhausted government with problems that are normal only in old governments of years”.
“Since taking office in March, the prime minister has replaced ministers and secretaries of state more than once a month on average, while the government adds serious cases every two weeks, sometimes of criminal significance and institutional laxity. other governments in Portugal have fallen,” he stressed.
The centralist MEP also defended that “a government that is in the news for cases and overthrows of ministers and secretaries of state, while families and companies pay the highest taxes ever, and Portugal finds itself at the very bottom of the list of the least to grow in the European Union no longer serves the common interest.”
“Portugal needs a different solution that will instill confidence in the Portuguese people and change the current moment of distrust and instability,” said Nuno Melo.
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Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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