Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said this Monday that verbal dialogue must materialize and that everyone must make an effort to bring positions closer together.
“In fact, everyone talks a lot about dialogue, but everyone must make an effort to bring positions closer together. Let’s try to do this,” Luis Montenegro told reporters in Pedrogan Grande, north of the Leiria region, after a commemorative event. military ceremony for the Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese communities.
Acknowledging the need to materialize the word “dialogue”, the Prime Minister added that there are “definitely” meeting points between the PS and the PSD in the future.
Luis Montenegro’s statements came after PS secretary general Pedro Nuno Santos said the European result showed the Portuguese had told the government it had to involve the opposition.
Asked whether Social Democratic Party secretary general Pedro Nuno Santos emphasized Sunday’s victory in the European elections, Luis Montenegro, also PSD leader, declined to answer, citing the celebration of Portugal Day, which celebrates “Portugalism, the Portuguese soul, a sense of unity, cohesion and independence” of the country, emphasizing that “this is what is important today.”
Upon his arrival in Pedrogão Grande, where he attended Portugal Day celebrations, Pedro Nuno Santos said the election results showed that “the government [eleito pela coligação AD – PSD/CDS-PP/PPM] you also need to want to engage parliament and the opposition.”
According to the PS leader, “it is quite clear that the Portuguese did not like the way the government treated parliament and the opposition.”
“If not, then the government that came to power two months ago did not just lose the elections,” he said.
Pedro Nuno Santos stressed that the government came to power “two months ago” and that it had “the last month with an intense campaign, with measures after measures” and yet it “lost the European elections.”
When asked by journalists whether Prime Minister Luis Montenegro understood this message, the PS Secretary General replied that he hoped “he understood.”
Pedro Nuno Santos confirmed that the PS will not be a “factor of instability,” stressing that it is not the party he leads that has ruled out “any desire for dialogue.”
The PS was the party with the most votes (32.1% and eight MEPs) in Sunday’s European elections, ahead of the Democratic Alliance, which had 31.1% and seven seats, according to preliminary results.
According to the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Chega, which elected two members of the European Parliament, became the third political force with 9.79%.
Also, after the election of two deputies, the Liberal Initiative (IL) received 9.07% of the votes.
The Left Bloc (BE) received 4.25% of the votes and the CDU (PCP/PEV) 4.12%, receiving one MEP each.
Celebrations of Portugal Day, Camões and the Portuguese communities this year are centered on Castanheira de Pera, Figueiro dos Vinhos and Pedrogão Grande – municipalities affected by fires in June 2017, which left 66 people dead and 253 injured. These fires also destroyed about half a thousand homes and 50 businesses.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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