PS activist Augusto Santos Silva warned this Thursday that there is a “huge risk” that the next government decision will be influenced by the far right, and believes that José Luis Carneiro is the Socialist candidate who best suits the current circumstances.
In his speech at the launch of the book “Ganhar o futuro”, combining the chronicles and public speeches of José Luis Carneiro in Lisbon, Augusto Santos Silva said that we are currently living in “very difficult circumstances, even in their strange circumstances.” “.
The speaker of parliament also said that the cause of the current crisis “is not political” and that the government resigned “not because it lost the confidence of parliament, the institutional solidarity of the president or the support of the population or the party.” this serves as his basis.”
“But because the parliament was dissolved, because the president of the republic realized that, having resigned the prime minister, the parliamentary majority, united and solid in parliament, did not have the right to propose an alternative prime minister,” he said.
For Santos Silva, this crisis “came out of the blue” and “a group of ordinary people,” including PS activists and voters, “are firstly very surprised and puzzled, secondly scared and thirdly, some are a little disappointed, others are even angry.” .
“And so we risk moving from the political stability, the political calm that the country has been experiencing, to the exact opposite: to a situation of unrest, instability, in which people may lose much of the trust that they have in us. “, he warned.
Thus, Santos Silva stated that in this context it is necessary to “show trust, care, consider all sides, consider all variables at the same time” and “show humanity.”
“And these, I believe, are precisely the political qualities of José Luis Carneiros, and these are really important political qualities,” he defended, emphasizing that he is the PS candidate best suited to the current circumstances.
Santos Silva warned that in the current scenario, “there is a huge, big risk – it is better not to hide it or discount it – namely the risk that the country could wake up on March 11 with a political situation in which the government decision presented to it is a decision dependent from the far right.”
“These far-right people who think that the blood of the Portuguese cannot be contaminated by the blood of Cape Verdeans, who think that foreigners are here to steal our social security, that the Portuguese can be divided into good and bad,” he said.
According to Santos Silva, “the only guarantee that the country will not become dependent on the blackmail of this force is to vote for the PS.”
In his speech, Augusto Santos Silva also addressed the period of leftist rapprochement between PS, PCP, BE and PEV, between 2015 and 2021, to explain how “people who were even ministers of “inventions”, as was the case in his case, can “to express doubts” about this government decision.
According to Santos Silva, a rapprochement with the left should be considered not only during the period of “inventions”, between 2015 and 2019, but also after the 2019 legislative elections, in which, according to him, the PS wanted to repeat this rapprochement, but “partners they didn’t do that” and “they even overthrew the government.”
“And this is why it is so important for us to protect the political autonomy of the PS: the PS should not be arrogant and want to do something alone, the PS should not despise others, (…) this is because the PS has political conditions so as not to fall into dependence on those who from time to time pull the rug out from under her feet,” he said.
The current President of the Assembly of the Republic added that the Portuguese know that “with the PS they can count, because with the PS there is a government,” stressing that throughout democratic history the party has found governing solutions with the help of the PSD. CDS, PCP, BE and PEV without losing their autonomy or “leadership of the political process”.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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