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If it wasn’t a defense of the honor of his government, it seemed. This Friday, Pedro Passos Coelho took advantage of a conference at the Academy of Sciences, in Lisbon, to destroy the António Costa executive in the management of the cases that have dominated the current political situation. The former prime minister does not conceive that in files such as the TAP or the TIMMS assessment (which evaluates the competencies of first cycle students in science and mathematics) the logic of the “blame shot” prevails for the team he leads. nor does he accept that Ihor Homeniuk’s death continues without assuming responsibility at the highest level.
In an intervention that was written in 14 pages, Passos said – without naming anyone – that “it is shocking to see politicians and government officials give in to complacency and arrogant defiance, when it is not pure guilt, instead of taking responsibility, both by the failures as by the real scandals that affect the external reputation of the country and undermine the confidence of the citizens in its institutions ”.
And, in the conference “Globalization in Portuguese, revolutions and continuities”, it soon materialized, speaking of “three examples” very recent and, unfortunately, very eloquent, which would not have occurred in the terms in which they occurred if the ethical values and the ultimate example of responsibility “had been others.
He referred, at first, to the results of the TIMMS program. One of the “deplorable cases”, stressed the former PSD leader, “of evasion of responsibilities” and “lack of humility to correct policies” that “were inadequate.”
Blaming Nuno Crato and the team of the then Ministry of Education (as the Government did), he added, “in addition to being ridiculous, it only serves to underline how populism and ease can animate political debate, but they always end up disqualifying public policies and for imposing a burden on future generations. “
The death of Ihor and the prejudices of the TAP
He then jumped to the death of the Ukrainian citizen at Lisbon airport in March, an episode in which, according to Passos, there has been a “search for a scapegoat”. After months of “incomprehensible inaction,” and “with state authority seriously shaken and trust in public institutions pinched,” Costa’s predecessor believes that “everything has served to try to hide the undisguised,” that is, the grave failures “of public bodies.
Passos sees no reason for the “incomprehensible reluctance to defend the State to avoid the responsibilities of its leaders” – read the Minister of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita -, who “prefer to launch the unfair reproach” at the entire SEF, even pointing to its “functional emptying”, instead of taking political responsibility for what happened.
As for TAP, which he had privatized in 2016 (during the brief days of his second government), Passos also showed little doubt. And he even speaks of a mess “emblematic of the unsustainable lightness of public irresponsibility in the conduct of collective interest”, in line with what Cavaco Silva also said this week, in an interview with the “Observer.”
“Now that TAP is threatened in its sustainability, instead of being the private ones, who took the risk of investing in privatizations, render accounts of the results before banks and insurance companies. leaseAmong other creditors, it is the State and taxpayers who have to bear the losses that they can almost only share with the company’s employees, who for the most part seem renationalized ”, he observed, also lamenting the“ political disputes ”that have dominated the debate about the airline.
“This bill that the government is preparing to endorse will be supported for many years, by many governments and too many taxpayers, whom the State does not see today with respect or parsimony,” criticized the former prime minister.
Mozambique. “Passivity has no explanation”
In the devastating X-ray that he took to the country, Passos also pointed to the international front. First, he spoke of the gaps in the internationalization and investment attraction strategy, which cannot be achieved with an “external agenda of front speeches.” Then he realized that there is no justification for neglecting Lusophony so much.
Example? The humanitarian problem of refugees triggered by successive waves of terrorist attacks in Mozambique, which would demand, in his perspective, “another attitude of responsibility and solidarity”, instead of “at least apparent Portuguese passivity”, which “has no explanation.”
At the end of the conference, which was part of a larger program of homage to Alfredo da Silva, one of the greatest Portuguese businessmen and industrialists of all time, Passos left a message for the future, which his unfailing ones are reading as a sign that he will walk. Over there. Addressing the elderly, he said that it was his “strict responsibility” not to leave “the new generations alone” in the task of undertaking a change in the country. This “effort”, he stressed, “will be all the greater the greater the weight of the legacy of omissions” that “ethically” your generation has “the duty to avoid”.
