PSD recommends modesty to Costa and asks: “Who is PS to teach lessons about stability?”

This Saturday, the Secretary General of the PSD asked “who is the PS to teach lessons of stability”, emphasizing that the current government with an absolute majority has resigned 14 times, “collapsed” and recommended “some modesty” to António Costa.

This Saturday, speaking to journalists in Lisbon at the center of the PS National Commission, Socialist Secretary General António Costa said that “the right represents an alternative to instability,” noting that “a right-wing arithmetic parliamentary majority, dependent on Chega, will never be a governing majority.” .

In a conversation with the Lusa agency, Hugo Soares reacted to these words of António Costa, saying that “if the matter were not serious and the country did not live the way it does, you would want to laugh.”

“A government with an absolute majority that resigned 14 times and collapsed… Who is PS to teach anyone lessons about stability? There is a need for a certain decorum in political life and Dr. António Costa must enter this stage with some modesty,” he said. said.

Hugo Soares said that the PSD had already declared “so clearly” its rejection of a possible coalition or post-election agreement with Chega that “only Dr. António Costa has not yet realized it, and besides, the whole country has already understood it.”

Responding to a question about António Costa’s statement that the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic was “totally unfounded and unnecessary”, Hugo Soares replied that “no one in the country believes that there is any other option than to give the people the right to vote” . .

“The climate of institutional degradation and impoverishment of individuals and families is such that only clarification can bring an end to this conflict that exists in the country,” he said.

Hugo Soares also expressed “great concern” about “recent statements, also known today, by senior leaders of the Socialist Party about the political situation”, arguing that socialists must determine whether they are “in favor of the principle of separation of powers” or if they intend to ” interfere with justice.”

“We in the PSD respect the presumption of innocence, but we also respect the free investigation of the Ministry of Justice and cannot accept that the PS wants to give these elections a judicial character,” he said.

The PSD Secretary General said that today’s meeting of the PS National Commission was attended by senior party leaders who “criticized the Public Ministry”, also recalling the RTP3 interview of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, in which he asked for speedy justice in the case of António Costa.

“The parties that built the democratic rule of law and democracy must fight, fight, defend the separation of powers, and I make this call to the PS: do not make these elections judicial,” he said.

Hugo Soares said the government is “against doctors, against teachers, against judicial officials, against security forces, against the President of the Republic and now against justice.”

“The country needs calm, trust and hope, and the PSD asks the PS to stop contributing to the degradation of political, social and economic conditions in Portugal,” he stressed.

In his statement to the media today, Costa noted that in order for the President of the Republic not to be forced to dissolve parliament again, “it is necessary that the right does not have a majority in the Assembly of the Republic,” since Chega “will become a permanent factor of instability.”

The Prime Minister also left another message, this time addressed to the SDP: “Let no one think that the conclusion of an agreement with Chega and the presence of a majority in the Assembly of the Republic creates conditions for governability.”

“This does not create it. On the contrary, it is a factor of enormous uncontrollability,” he said.