PS accuses Paulo Portas of doing critical review of four years of government – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

PS criticized the deputy prime minister and leader of the CDS, Paulo Portas, for not doing a critical review of their four years of government and considered that the Portuguese are still waiting for the state reform.

These positions were transmitted by Graça Fonseca, member of the PS National Secretariat, after the interview with SIC by Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the CDS, Paulo Portas. “Paulo Portas makes a criticism of the PS for not doing a critical review of their governments – governments that have already been judged at the polls -., But spends an interview time without a single critical review of its four years of Government It is up to Portuguese make a critical review of these four years of government of Pedro Passos Coelho and Paulo Portas, “the socialist leader.

According to Graça Fonseca, it is important to compare what was promised by the parties comprising the existing executive in elections in 2011 and what has been achieved in his tenure. “He assured that government that the debt would be 101% of gross domestic product (GDP), but is now at 130%. He said it would increase the wealth produced, but the GDP is seven percent below compared to 2011. On the other hand values we have a tax burden of around 37%, the highest ever recorded in Portugal and there are about 300 thousand jobs compared to what was promised by the parties of the government four years ago, “pointed out the socialist leader.

Graça Fonseca accused then President of CDS not take “a single mistake or failed prediction but seeks to convey the idea that everything that was done by the Government was made because it was required and that therefore nothing is the responsibility of the Government, but maybe the chance. “

” Speak in tidy house, but the house is not tidy, because the Portuguese know that this government has destroyed hope and trust. The Portuguese also continue waiting for the vaunted reform of the state , something that Paulo Portas is the minister responsible, but that over time an interview, not a word said about it, “criticized yet.

Graça Fonseca said then that the PS agreed to President of the CDS when, in an interview with SIC argued that the next Parliament has to give priority to social issues. “But for that, we need to change the government,” he added.