BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua this Friday accused the current PS government, with an absolute majority, of failing in the health and housing sectors, while Socialist Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos challenged the solutions proposed by the blockists.
These positions were exchanged during a cordial debate on the RTP in the run-up to the expected legislative elections on March 10, in which Mariana Mortagua reiterated that the PS and BE must provide the country with a “stability solution” and talk with “clarity about what will happen in the day after the election.”
In response, Pedro Nuno Santos refused to talk about agreements now, before the elections, but did not rule out the conclusion of “written agreements”, saying that he had always defended them and considering that it “worked well” in the first legislature, the so-called “cunning” between the PS and in parties to her left
The issue of fairness was also brought up for discussion. Both Pedro Nuno Santos and Mariana Mortagua were satisfied with the clarifications of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic in a statement on judicial investigations related to public procurement in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, and expressed concerns about access and the slowness in the administration of justice, given the media coverage of the last known political crisis.
In this debate, which lasted about 37 minutes with short breaks, Pedro Nuno Santos distanced himself from Mariana Mortagua regarding the reversal of the privatization of companies such as REN, CTT, Galp and EDP: “This does not mean that they are great. , but we can’t always cancel, deconstruct, go backwards.”
The BE coordinator launched an attack on the PS government led by Antonio Costa, which has an absolute majority in parliament, which she accused of leading to a “disaster” in the National Health Service (SNS) and of failing to solve the housing problem. – an area that Pedro Nuno Santos oversaw as minister.
Pedro Nuno Santos countered that BE “does not offer good solutions” in these two and other areas, pointing out the impossibility of implementation and the injustice of the proposal to force the Caixa Geral de Depósitos to reduce the “extension” of housing credit.