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The “shock” that António Costa wanted to give the country worked. That is the opinion of Marques Mendes who considered this Sunday in the SIC that the decision of the Government to present a law to make the StayAway Covid application mandatory was “a wrong idea.” that generated happy results ”. Now, said the former PSD leader, “the prime minister can say, with his characteristic skill, that the law is no longer necessary.”
Marques Mendes justified his reasoning with numbers. Until zero hours, “there was a large increase in downloads, codes generated and codes entered”: the application installations are now 2.28 million, the codes generated are now 700 and those inserted 300 “.It has been a lot of growth in the last few days, ”he said, adding that 37% of the 6.2 million mobile phones that can use this application they have already done their to download.
“This telenovela is over,” predicted Marques Mendes, for whom the law was “partial, unprecedented, absurd ”and the first and second Portuguese consecrated. “It was absurd, complete and impractical, ingestible, ineffective. There is no worse than making a law to not comply, “he said.
On the remaining measures presented by the Prime Minister in the instructions of the Council of Ministers, the commentator said that they arrived “late and insufficient” and considered that the Government “is collecting covers.”Seen from the outside, the feeling that remains is that there is great disorientation. At the beginning of last week we were in a contingency situation, on Thursday we passed the calamity and on Saturday we were already talking about returning to the state of emergency. The speech changes life. People don’t adhere when they don’t understand logic. There has to be a more constant discourse, ”he advised.
Despite everything, Marques Mendes agrees that it is impossible to return to the great March confinement, preferably defending surgical confinements and greater articulation between the public and private sectors in terms of health responses. “There can be no prejudices”, defended Marques Mendes, who took the opportunity to report: “The Government is preparing to announce that visits to the elderly may increase. Today, only one per week is allowed. “
Prudent budget
The SIC commentator left two compliments to the Government’s State Budget and also two criticisms. First, the compliments. “It is not a budget for Socrates. It’s prudent, ”he shot. “It has a strong social charge and at this moment this social reversal is positive.” Then, the critics: “There is no economic policy. It is the big hole, the great disappointment ”, he lamented, insisting that measures are lacking to encourage exports, business competitiveness and the capitalization of companies. “This EO does not have the finger of the Minister of Economy and that is not good.” Marques Mendes also points out that “he does not have regional solidarity with the Azores and Madeira”, which he considered “inadmissible”.
In short, “it was done to make it possible from the left” and “everything points to the PCP and the PAN making it possible.” For Marques Mendes, “the block is the biggest unknown.” And it is true that, as the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Duarte Cordeiro, said, mathematically the vote of the Bloc is not necessary for it to proceed to the next stage, “politically it is not the same.”
“If it fails now, the Block will not back down next year,” Mendes warned. But he also left a warning to the blockers about the price that the party must pay “for voting alongside the right on a budget with this social inclination.” Finally, Marques Mendes said he expected some negative coalitions in the specialty.
