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The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE), Catarina Martins, said this Saturday that the “ultimatum” of Prime Minister António Costa on a possible political crisis “does not solve anything and does not mobilize anyone.”
“It is not the first ultimatum on the political crisis. It does not solve anything and does not mobilize anyone. We need strong responses to the health, social and economic crisis,” can be read in a publication by Catarina Martins on the social network Twitter. This Saturday.
The BE leader added, in the publication in which she reacts to António Costa’s interview published in Expresso, that the responses to the crisis must be given “from the beginning, in OE2021”. [Orçamento do Estado para 2021], and that his party “focuses on solutions for the country.”
The BE coordinator reacted in this way to the words of the Prime Minister in an interview granted on the 21st and published today in the weekly, in which the Head of Government stated that if there is no agreement for the approval of the State Budgets with BE and PCP, there will be a political crisis.
“If there is no agreement, it is simple: there is no budget and there is a political crisis. There we will be discussing the date when the president [da República] We will have to do the inevitable ”, answered António Costa, when asked about the subject.
In a message addressed mainly to the leftist partners of the PS in parliament, António Costa considers that “whoever does not want to assume responsibilities should dedicate himself to another activity”, because political activity requires “assumption of responsibilities.”
“The other parties do not want to take responsibility for unemployment in January 2022? Whoever shuns responsibility for the problems shuns the responsibility of defining solutions. If we want less unemployment in 2022, we have to define policies in time,” he defended.
Faced with the scenario of left-wing parties leaving the PS and the government alone with the PSD to make next year’s budget feasible, the prime minister said he would not ask the Social Democrats to vote against or to abstain.
“What I want to make very clear, and I have already left it to the PCP and the BE, is that, if they dream that they are going to put the PS in a position to go to negotiate with the PSD the continuation of the Government, they can remove the horse from the rain, because we will not negotiate for the right the subsistence of this Government ”, stressed António Costa.
On Thursday, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, had already asked for dialogue to make the State Budget for 2021 viable, which he considered a fundamental instrument for the application of European funds, and warned that it will not be aligned with political crises. .
Speaking to journalists, at the beginning of a visit to the Lisbon Book Fair, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “the President of the Republic will not align himself in political crises, so leave those who think that, if there is no effort of understanding, there will be a dissolution of the parliament in the little time that the President has for that, which is until September 8 ”.
“This is an adventure. Besides the health crisis and the economic crisis, a political crisis, it was the total adventure. The alternative would be a crisis in the long term, that is, the President installed on March 9, whoever he is, It will be dissolved for the June elections. This does not exist, this is fiction. Therefore, a political crisis or the threat of a political crisis is fiction, “he added.
On Friday, at the opening of the Porto Book Fair, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa explained that when he said that in a climate of pandemic and economic and social crisis it made no sense to add a political crisis, he said what “any sensible person would say” .
“When I said that, in this climate of pandemic and economic and social crisis, there was no point in adding a political crisis, I said what I think any sensible person would say, I said what I feel is on the minds of the Portuguese,” said the chief. . of State.
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