Katarina Martins criticizes Antonio Costa’s “disastrous” interview and says she is not answering the country.

Bloco de Esquerda (BE) coordinator Catarina Martins criticized Tuesday’s RTP Prime Minister’s interview on Monday, calling it “disastrous” and regretting that António Costa was a victim of not giving answers to the country.

“There is, first of all, a huge inversion of what the government is responsible for. When I see an interview in which the prime minister is a victim of the crisis, instead of saying how he is going to respond to the crisis, it is the world with its feet up,” said the MP, continuing: “A prime minister who persecutes himself instead of to respond to the country is a prime minister who does not serve the country.”

In statements on the sidelines of the BB Political Commission’s filing of a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office (GP) regarding alleged illegal practices in hiring immigrant labor through recruitment companies, the bloc’s leader defended that “the only novelty is that António Costa suggests he may lose the European elections”, in an interview in which he says that the prime minister acted “like everything was in order”.

“From that perspective, this is a disastrous interview. The country needs answers so badly, and the country had everything but that,” he said, not failing to emphasize the lack of answers: “You shouldn’t pretend that these are all problems with justice, there are problems of political responsibility that need to be answered. It does not correspond to the country, inflation, and the government does nothing to ensure that people have access to essential goods every month.”