AD accuses opposition of criticizing Government rather than praising Portuguese

Othe parliamentary leaders of the PSD and the CDS-PP criticized the PS tonight and the Enough for considering excessive preventive measures of the Government to deal with the storm Charles and defended that the security of the Portuguese should be a priority.

PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares accused the leaders of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, and the Cávez, André Ventura, of missing an opportunity to remain silent, after criticizing the government response, reaffirming the idea that the security of people must be above the party disputes.

Hugo Soares spoke to journalists at the start of the State Budget Days for 2027 of the Democratic Alliance (AD), subordinated to the motto “For a More Prepared Portugal”, in Setúbal.

“ After the baptism made there are no shortage of godparents”, said the social-democratic parliamentary leader, questioning why José Luís Carneiro and André Ventura did not manifest themselves the day before the storm, when the government announced the prevention measures and only if they had spoken when it was realized that there were no more serious consequences.

The PSD parliamentary leader also stated that the opposition seeks to transform the response to the storm into a party dispute, when it should have recognized the behavior of the Portuguese and the action of the authorities.

“ Today is the day to greet the Portuguese because, in an organized way, cooperatively, they reacted very well to what the guidelines of the government and all the institutions were ", said.

In the opening of the days, the parliamentary leader of the CDS-PP, Paulo Nuncio, praised the Portuguese response and highlighted the work of the security forces, firefighters, Civil Protection, Armed Forces and mayors, and considered that “Portugal is more prepared to face emergency situations”.

The leader of the CDS/PP also took advantage of the intervention to accuse Enough of impreparation and the PS of resorting to past solutions.

“Arrivo is the most unprepared party, which least studies the proposals it presents and who thinks less about its consequences,” he said.

The leader of the CDS admitted that he does not yet know all 714 proposals to amend the State Budget for 2027 submitted by the Cázima, but recalled that if all the proposals of that party had been approved in the previous budget (2026), ‘Portugal would have recorded a deficit of EUR 20 billion’.

As for the PS, Paulo Nuncio said that the socialists left the country prepared, but for financial crises and for the worsening of social problems, considering that the responses of the party of José Luís Carneiro to the new questions and new times “it is always the old revenues”, pointing as an example the proposal for recovery of the General States of António Guterres.

On demonstrations for the right to housing, the parliamentary leader of the CDS believes that these are events that “are fading because it began to rain”.

“It’s boring that we defend the revolutionary cause and catch cold rain without waiting. And so I would even say that the November rain is about to end with the revolutionary flame of camped and popular assemblies", he said.

With regard to the performance of the AD Government, Paulo Nuncio stressed the importance of budgetary surpluses, tax reduction and public debt and the forecast of a fourth consecutive budgetary surplus in 2027, which he considered a structural change in Portuguese public finances.

“ Before the rule was the deficit, then the rule became the budgetary surplus,” he stressed, in an implicit praise to AD governance.

Paulo Nuncio also considered that the results of the AD governments were achieved without increasing taxes, with reductions of the IRS and the IRC and the creation of the IRS regime Young people, along with an increase in real household income, improved employment levels and reduced public debt.

He also highlighted the forecast of a public debt below 85% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2027, contrasting with figures close to 130% recorded a few years ago.

"This is a good budget precisely because it is a budget that better prepares the country for future challenges. And I started by telling you that the mark of a good government is precisely to prepare the country better for future challenges. And between this coalition, with evidence given and work done, and the two major opposition parties, one completely unprepared, the other who has badly prepared the country in the past, I would say that the choice is simple", he concluded.