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The President of the Republic admitted this Saturday that the trust pact with the Portuguese “it didn’t work”, given the worsening of the covid-19 pandemic after Christmas.
In the debate with Ana Gomes for the presidential elections, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was more assertive about the aggravation of the measures.
There is no alternative to general confinement “, said the reelected president, the day the government announced that the country will enter a new lockdown next week.
Regarding the less restrictive measures at Christmas, Marcelo stressed that he listened to all parties on this issue and all agreed with the change, “some even” in a more “permissive” way.
The decision had the effects it had. At that time, I spoke of a trust pact with the Portuguese. But the trust pact did not work. It is a fact. I assume that responsibility without any problem, for me, for the Government and for all those who intervened ”, accepted.
In this context, the president has clarified a solution to confine only citizens of groups at risk.
This idea has not been found anywhere in Europe. All of Europe is reconfiguring itself more globally than Portugal and for longer than Portugal “, Held.
Regarding the possibility that schools do not close doors in a new confinement, the president stressed that it is the “lowest risk group”, but that it has not yet been decided that they remain open.
The situation in nursing homes was also discussed, to which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “the coordination between health and social security did not go well“.
In response to the pandemic, I already said that I take responsibility for what went wrong “, Marcelo reiterated.
Asked why he had to wait until Wednesday until the new restrictive measures to combat covid-19 are known, the President of the Republic pointed out that the numbers for the weekend “These numbers are always lower due to the closure of the laboratories.”“The figures from Sunday reported to Saturday are lower, the figures from Monday reported to Sunday are also lower. That is why on Tuesday he was chosen by epidemiologists for already giving an image along with the data from the weekend that is now ending. These data already allow us to make concrete proposals “, justified.
Among other aspects in relation to the epidemiological situation in Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was concerned about the creation of very high expectations regarding the vaccination process.
It is a process that can last a year and a half and not for the next day “, he is stressed.
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