Pedro Nuno Santos accuses Luís Montenegro of “systematically” evading scrutiny

“One of our obligations is to always be available to be scrutinized and to provide all clarifications, whenever there are doubts, about the conduct of any political office holder”, defended the socialist secretary general.

These criticisms were made by the former Secretary of State of the governments led by António Costa during the period of political statements at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Assembly of the Republic. Based on the most recent indicators on the evolution of the Portuguese economy, António Mendonça Mendes stated that, contrary to the promises of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, it was found that the tax burden on companies and f…

The leader of the Socialist Party guarantees, in the Evening Edition of SIC Notícias, that only the PS is synonymous with stability for the country and that keeping Luís Montenegro in power “would continue to keep the country in an environment of suspicion and doubt”.

The leader of the PS affirms that “leadership and the political project are two sides of the same coin” and that for this reason the “way of acting [Luís Montenegro] was reflected in the governance itself”.

According to the Secretary General of the Socialist Party, there will be “no healthy democracy if politicians think they can evade scrutiny”.

The socialist leader says that the Prime Minister “systematically” escaped scrutiny last year to “be held to account” about the policies he was following, talking about the reduction of the IRS, the promise of reducing the number of students without a teacher and also about how to deal with the INEM strike