The President of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rocha, criticized the PSD this Monday in Porto for maintaining the circle of compensation for votes, the difficulties in accessing health care and for not lowering the IRS.
In his speech at a rally organized by the territorial centers of Porto County in Illinois, Rui Rocha noted that “for a country to truly change, its governance must be influenced by those who want to change it,” setting the tone of criticism of the Social Democrats, whom he accused of , that they “claim they want to change the country, but when the key moment comes, they never say ‘real’.”
Using three examples, Rui Rocha began with the compensation circle and the “730 thousand votes lost in the Portuguese electoral system in the last elections.”
“The PS and the SDP have recognized that there has been a problem for 30 years, that they say they want to change, that they want to change this situation, that they are ready to change, but for 30 years they have not done so. Then we put forward this proposal in the Assembly of the Republic, and the comments were as follows: now is not the time, these are topics for deeper discussion,” the leader recalled.
And he continued: “How much longer do we have to wait, how many more votes do we have to waste, do we have to reach a million wasted votes to change this? Not for IL, we have to change and change now. This is exactly what happened with the SDP, who voted against our proposal after 30 years of saying that this was a problem and that it needed to be changed.”
In the second example, regarding access to health care, Rui Rocha criticized the PSD for the failure of the IL proposal, and in the third, because the Social Democrats showed “the same ambition as the PS in cutting taxes, which is far below the proposal” your party .
Finally, the politician said that the Portuguese can count on IL to “simplify processes” and to “fight state abuses”, in a speech in which he also criticized “PS António Costa and Pedro Nuno Santos”, based on short stories people he said he met and whose difficulties he witnessed he attributed to the government.
“The Portuguese are tired of the stagnation that prevents them from growing (…) we have a responsibility to change (…) the concrete lives of the Portuguese,” concluded the liberal leader.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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