BE leader accuses the SDP of having a “past with poor memory” and a “present with no alternative to the absolute majority”

This Sunday, the BE leader called the SDP “past with a bad memory” and “present with no alternative to the absolute majority,” accusing the party of allowing itself to be “dragged into a swamp where exploitation of affairs abounds.”

At a lunch meeting in Marinha Grande (Leiria), where Saturday’s PSD congress was the central topic, Mariana Mortagua began by declaring that the Social Democrats arrived at this congress with a legacy of “years without a single meaningful contribution, without a single meaningful idea.” which could be distinguished from the absolute majority of PS.”

“The SDP came to this congress as a party that allowed itself to be dragged into a swamp where exploitation of affairs and affairs abounds, but where there have always been proposals to solve the problems of those who work and those who face a hard life. not enough,” he noted.

Mariana Mortagua added that, “taking into account everything that the PSD has been in recent years,” she “supports the promise of Luis Montenegro [presidente do PSD] that it will be better than it was,” but still “without much hope,” since it leaves a guarantee that “it will be the same as it has always been.”

“And we know exactly what it is, we know exactly what the SDP is, as it has always been. This is the past with a bad memory and the present, with no alternative to the absolute majority,” he emphasized.

According to the national coordinator of the Bloc de Esquerda, “the PSD has a history that people do not forget and that people do not forgive” because when “the moment was most important”, the PSD decided to “raise taxes”. , decided to freeze pensions, although he promised to do the exact opposite.”

For Mariana Mortagua, the story of the PSD is also the story of “betrayal of teachers,” when in 2018 she “extended a hand to the PS to prevent seniority from being repaid,” arguing that the party’s strength “lies in the consistency between what it says and what it says.” what it does, and the PSD does not have such consistency and therefore does not enjoy the confidence of a country that has been impoverished at its hands in the past.”

The Bloc leader also accused the SDP leader of self-denial.

“The leader of the SDP at his congress says that “the most serious problem is housing,” he recalled, asking if there is anyone in the country who remembers “the only proposal of the SDP that can solve the country’s most serious problem.”

Answering that “no one remembers, because they didn’t say anything to hide what they did and to hide what they didn’t do and don’t want to do in the future,” the Bloc leader emphasized that “everything that happened during time of the housing crisis,” bears the mark and scar of the SDP.

In this regard, he gave the example that it was the PSD/SDS-PP government that “introduced the law to increase rents”, which promoted local housing and tourist “resorts” “without measures, without restrictions” or which “invented golden visas”. ‘”.

“Dare Luis Montenegro talk about moderation? Dare he call himself a moderate? Moderate in what? Moderate incomes? Moderate prices? Lies,” he added, guaranteeing that BE will close “the door to golden visas, non-resident homes,” and lowering “housing prices,” among other measures.

Mariana Mortagua argued that “the PSD and the majority of the PS have been persecuting people for the last few years in the name of the most petty principles, the “Eldorado” of tourism and its tentacles in real estate speculation”, believing that it is “necessary to stop them”, “to give the people security” .

He left it to those present to “put an end to this rigged game”, saying the party was the “voice of housing” and the “credible left”.