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Social Democratic Vice President Morais Sarmento denies the existence of any national agreement between the PSD and Chega to make the government in the Azores viable and insisted that the solution “only compromises” the parties “in regional terms.”
The vice president of the PSD accused the secretary general and the prime minister of the PS of “disorientation” and said that António Costa “knows” that “it is not true” that there is some national understanding with Chega, the far-right party led by André Ventura.
Speaking to TVI, Nuno Morais Sarmento stressed that, from the perspective of the PSD leadership, “these understandings were exclusively from the regional PSD.”
“We take autonomy seriously. In the understanding of the national PSD, there is a political platform with the PSD, CDS and PPM ”that will be in charge of presenting a government program.
“This is the platform that will be in charge of conducting government policy” and presenting the government program and, he considered, “it was normal for Chega and the Liberal Initiative to make a right-wing government viable.”
“The PSD has had and has never had an understanding with extreme parties, unlike the PS,” he stressed.
Asked if he considers that the president of the PSD, Rui Rio, owes explanations to the country, as defended by the secretary general of the PS, Morais Sarmento replied: “the explanations that dr. Rui Rio would have to give are what I am giving here on behalf of PSD ”.
Asked whether Chega is considered a xenophobic party, Morais Sarmento said that Chega is a political party “that has xenophobic positions.”
