PSD President Luis Montenegro said this Saturday that “political propaganda is the beginning and the end of the government of the Socialist Party,” which he accused of failing to solve the country’s main problems.
“The country I see on the street is very different from the headlines in the newspapers and sometimes even from what comes home through political propaganda, which today is the beginning and end of the rule of the Socialist Party,” Luis Montenegro said in a statement to journalists.
The statement by the leader of the Social Democrats took place in Pacos de Ferreira, where this Saturday the “Sentir Portugal” initiative, which the national leadership of the party has implemented in recent days in the Porto district, ended.
In summary, Montenegro said he was left with “a feeling of unease and apprehension because there are many issues that affect people’s lives that the government, which has been in power for eight years, cannot solve in such fundamental areas as health, education, agriculture and business support.”
For the leader of the Social Democrats, Portugal is “a country that has nothing in common with the country of Dr. António Costa and the Socialist Party.”
“The real country, the country that all Portuguese encounter, and here in the Porto area, every day, has nothing to do with the pomp with which they talk about the economy, about the future, about reality. The last few years have been a time of severe financial strangulation, with taxes always breaking records, and at the same time a time when all basic government services have fallen into disrepair,” he criticized.
Montenegro concluded by saying that what he has seen in the district in recent days “is yet another demonstration of the failure of this administration.”