Hugo Soares criticizes Costa’s “absence” and says the government is “without king and castle”

PSD general secretary Hugo Soares said this Monday that the government “has no king and castle” and criticized António Costa for the policies he is developing in housing, taxes and education.

“Where is Dr. António Costa, where is Dr. António Costa, where is the Prime Minister of Portugal, faced with the specific issue of people’s lives, studying, contemplating, possible tax cuts?” he said.

Hugo Soares, who spoke at the opening of the PSD Summer University, which will last until Sunday in Castelo de Vide, Portalegre district, noted the party’s willingness to find a solution for the housing sector, saying that it was rejected by the government. which he regretted.

“It can be said that the government is in fact deprived of a king or a castle, it can be said that the loss of the power of the prime minister is no longer associated only with what his ministers do or do not do in certain ministries. It is also a lack of authority to carry out public policy,” he said.

“There are some commentators in our square who are the first to say that they do not know about the leader of the opposition, that the SDP does not seem to have a leader, and now there is no one to ask where the prime minister is from. He has not had a word for more than a month to answer the main concerns of the Portuguese population, where is the prime minister,” he lamented.

Hugo Soares referred to the difficulties of young people who “go to university without being able to pay for a room or housing” and the Portuguese who “pay the highest taxes” and criticized the “minimum public services and the National Health Service”. Services closed over the summer,” accusing the prime minister of “singing and whistling on the sidelines.”

According to Hugo Soares, Portugal needs a prime minister who “does not think about the people on the posters” as the PS party has spread throughout the country, but a Portuguese prime minister who “thinks about the people every day”. “.

PSD Summer University, commemorating the 20th anniversary of this political learning initiative, kicked off this Monday, with speakers including President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, former Prime Minister Durau Barroso and former leader of the CDS-PP. Paul Portas.

The work ends on Sunday with a speech by party leader Luis Montenegro, marking the political “arena” of the SDP. This Summer University has been held since 2003 with the joint support of the PSD, JSD, Instituto Francisco Sa Carneiro and the Social Democratic Delegation of the European People’s Party.

This 19th edition is attended by 100 young people selected from 350 candidates. According to the director of the university, the participants were chosen with an “age balance between 18 and 30 years old, gender between males and females, and geographic location to cover the entire country.”