In Montenegro they say that it was under the PS that private business “prospered the most”

The PSD leader accused the PS António Costa of further allowing private businesses to flourish in health and education due to a lack of response from public services, exacerbating inequality between rich and poor.

“It is thanks to the hands of the PS, often hand in hand with the PCP and the Left Bloc, that private business in health and education has flourished most in Portugal, and in which the inequality between those who have the money to resort to this offer and those who have who is not there and who remains at the door of the hospital waiting for an appointment, at the door of the health center waiting for the family doctor or at the door of the school waiting for the teacher in all subjects,” said Luis Montenegro.

The PSD President spoke during a dinner with activists and supporters in Lorignan on Friday, with which he completed the route of the “Sentir Portugal” program through the municipalities of the Western District of the Lisbon District.

In the health sector, as in education, where it raises awareness and provides solutions, Montenegro argues that more and more Portuguese are turning to the private sector, criticizing the PS for failing to guarantee “equality of opportunity” in access to public services.

In the field of education, he specified, 25% of Portuguese students attend private schools due to the shortage of teachers in public schools, which he recalled was the “great passion” of the PS.

Given the situation in the country, Luis Montenegro said that “it is no longer possible to go there with changes in the PS or in the government,” although the government led by António Costa has been in power for eight years.

The Social Democrat therefore reiterated the need for the Portuguese to “give an orange card to the PS” in the next European Parliament elections, which will take place in June 2024.

As for Montenegro, “more and more people are becoming disillusioned and disillusioned with the work of the PS”, taking into account “the lack of results in all the most important areas of governance, with the poorest country, with the country at the bottom of Europe, with more and more people are paid the national minimum wage, and in society the minimum and average wages are almost touching each other.”

So he asked activists to help get the message across that it was necessary to “give no more opportunity, no longer give in to governments that are pursuing the wrong policies” and to “vote for the only alternative that can change the country, and that alternative is PSD.”