Former Social Democratic minister Miguel Poyares Maduro this Saturday accused the PS of wanting to “accustom the country to mediocrity” and said that the Portuguese “want moderation in ideology and demandingness in ethics.”
In a highly critical intervention in socialist governance at the 41st Social Democratic Congress, which will take place this Saturday in Almada (Setubal district), Miguel Poyares Maduro declared that “the PS has normalized mediocrity in the economy and now it wants to normalize mediocrity in politics “
“Sometimes politics becomes more difficult if you don’t put political skill before ethics. We are often accused of lacking the skills for politics, but turning politics into a cycle of skills is why so many Portuguese are on the verge of giving up politics,” warned former deputy minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
Poiares Maduro was confident that the PSD would win legislative elections in March, saying that “the Portuguese want moderation in ideology and demandingness in ethics.”
The Social Democrat began his speech by talking about a video in which people were asked to count the number of passes made during a basketball game, but at the same time, “someone in a gorilla suit appeared on the screen and looked directly at the camera.”
“All that the PS is doing, has done and will do is to divert the attention of the Portuguese from the gorillas. And gorillas are a way of doing politics that the PS wants to normalize,” he said.
“The usual way of encouraging foreign investment is to have a friend of the prime minister act as an intermediary for that investment and the government. That it is normal for the chief of staff of the Prime Minister to have banknotes worth 75 thousand euros hidden in the room next to the Prime Minister,” he listed.
According to Puarez Maduro, the PS wants to convince the country that “it is normal for people with deeply suspicious and ethically reprehensible behavior to reach the highest positions in the country, including the position of prime minister” and that “this is normal for political office.” the copyright holder wants to set a deadline for the courts to complete the investigation” or “control via WhatsApp”. [rede social]”.
“It’s normal that lies turn into oblivion,” he said.
The Social Democrat said that “the country doesn’t just need to change its government, it needs to change the way it governs.”
“It is this new way of governing and understanding politics that Luis Montenegro promises and will bring to the country. But the responsibility for its implementation lies as much with him as with us,” he warned.
A few minutes earlier, Social Democratic MEP Lydia Pereira also issued a statement in which she defended the thesis that socialists tend to “not take the blame” by taking responsibility for “the right and the PSD.”
The MEP said that “in a country where nothing works, the PS machine never ceases to undermine its image.”
Lydia Pereira also believes that the government party has legitimized that “the next step for a minister who resigns due to sheer incompetence is to run for prime minister,” referring to Pedro Nuno Santos.
“They normalized that the Prime Minister [António Costa] is being investigated by the Supreme Court if he goes around Brussels talking about jobs for which he will or will not apply. (…) Anyone in such circumstances would feel ashamed, but António Costa does not, José Luis Carneiro does not, Pedro Nuno Santos does not,” he criticized.
Calling António Costa “the most skillful politician in the history of Portuguese democracy,” Lydia Pereira said she did not want the PSD to “be better skilled than the PS.”
“I still believe that politics is measured by the results of people’s lives, not by the number of years in government. I don’t want to be better than PS at playing with people’s lives or their intelligence,” he defended.
A few minutes earlier, a video was shown with a message of support for Luis Montenegro from the prime ministers of Luxembourg and Croatia.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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