Montenegro promises news about AIMA and advises the opposition to “pedal more”

The PSD President and Prime Minister promised this Friday news on the situation in AIMA next week and advised the opposition to “pedal more” in order to keep up with the government.

Luis Montenegro joined the AD campaign for Europeans for the second time this Friday in Santa Maria da Feira and during a street contact before the rally, journalists asked him about the problems encountered with the Agency for Migration and Refugee Integration (AIMA). ) and Chega’s request to suspend the regularization of migrants.

“We’ll have news about that next week,” he said simply.

The leader of the PSD and the government refused to comment directly on warnings from the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, about the possibility of a political crisis and whether he is concerned about stability.

“What worries me is the governance, they said the government did nothing, now they say it does a lot. Here in the country of cyclists, it can be said that the opposition failed to pedal. to keep pace with the government,” he said.

Montenegro has confirmed that, contrary to what many are saying, the government is not speeding up the pace ahead of the European elections on June 9.

“Don’t get tired yet, otherwise you won’t have to come for a broom,” he advised.

Soon after, at the open-air rally, Montenegro returned to the cycling metaphor.

“What I’m saying is that whether we’re walking in a straight line, whether we’re about to run at a moving target, whether we’re climbing a mountain, we’ll always give it our all,” he said.

So he offered the opposition two alternatives: “Anyone who wants to watch us pedal must also give the pedal. Anyone who wants to attend, sending jokes to those who are pedaling a lot, is welcome to help and we will continue to pedal.” “.

Montenegro said it was optimistic about the results of the European elections on June 9, demanding a stronger and “robust representation” of the AD in the European Parliament, and again believed that the head of the list, Sebastian Bugalho, was “clearly right.”

“Good race Sebastian, good result, it’s time for the sprint, give it your all in the sprint, win the election with us, we will win this election and continue to transform the country,” he said.

Montenegro accused the opposition of having no more arguments in this campaign, except for the age of Sebastian Bugalho.

“They would like to be your age (…) Yes, it is possible to have a 28-year-old representative of a country in the European Parliament and even possible for him to be the best of the 21 “members of the European Parliament,” he believed.

The SDP chairman advised the candidate not to worry about what is being said, which is not of “little importance”, but more about what he has to do, saying that he has taken the same position.

“Until a month and a half ago, I had no experience at all. Then I didn’t know how to do anything, now they even ask me not to do so much. The principle is always the same: let them talk, they talk. , we say, and we’re focused on taking care of people’s lives, and that’s what we want to do in Europe,” he said.