Fernando Medina, former finance minister, responded this Thursday to the accusations of the current government and said that Portugal “has no budgetary problems.”
“I respond with deep concern to the finance minister’s statements about the budget situation,” he said.
The former mayor of Lisbon said Miranda Sarmento’s statements “show deep lack of preparedness.” This Thursday, morning Post It has emerged that António Costa’s government has incurred expenses of one billion euros since the March 10 elections. After this, Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento stated in the Council of Ministers that “ The budget situation is much worse than the previous government announced.”
“The Minister of Finance confirmed the document with a “surplus” of 0.3%. There are no budgetary problems in the country,” he added.
Medina says this “regrettable moment” is the result of “technical incompetence” or “political lies” aimed at “turning Portuguese finances into a political battlefield.”
“All expenses that I have authorized fit into the state budget. I am fully aware of what I did. If the SDP thinks that it is getting something from this partisan, then it is very mistaken,” he concluded.