PS leadership candidate Pedro Nuno Santos this Thursday criticized the PSD for advocating the creation of a working group on the location of the new airport, and also accused the Social Democrats of being “unreliable”.
“Fifty years after we started doing the first studies, this is a serious national problem, in fact the SDP is not satisfied with fifty years of studying 19 sites as an independent technical committee that produces a report, what should the SDP do? I say: we are going to create a working group to study the findings of an independent technical committee,” he criticized.
Pedro Nuno Santos spoke Thursday evening at the Congress Center of the Chamber of Portalegre, where he took part in a meeting with activists and supporters from the Alentejo region.
The former infrastructure minister believes Portugal is “suffering” from a problem that includes “inability to make decisions” as well as “slowness and dragging feet”, stressing that this situation is not limited to the new airport.
The former governor also accused the SDP of having “trust issues” and being “untrustworthy” with pensioners and having recently “stopped making promises” to that electorate.
“In desperation for the March 10th election, they started, started making promises, trying to make promises to citizens who had been treated worse in all their governments, to pensioners. The SDP has a serious problem when it targets those who have worked all their lives. They are currently undergoing reforms, they have trust issues, they are not trustworthy,” he said.
The Socialist candidate also stressed that the concept of structural reforms in the state for the right “does not coincide” with the way the PS does this work, since reforms for the right “must harm” the Portuguese.
“When they talk about reforms, they talk about something different from us, they talk about structural reforms… reform, which is reform for the right, must cause harm, for them reform means liberalization, deregulation, privatization,” accused He.
In the direct socialist elections on December 15 and 16, three candidates stood: Pedro Nuno Santos, José Luis Carneiro and Daniel Adrian.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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