Constitutional review? Montenegro says it has PS, without excluding anyone

Luis Montenegro spoke at the beginning of the National Council of the PSD, in an intervention in which he announced that former deputy Paulo Mota Pinto and former judge of the Constitutional Court (and parliamentary leader in the direction of Rui Rio) will lead the PSD working group that, in the next three months, will develop the draft of the Constitutional Review Party.

The Social Democratic leader first warned that, in this process, only the PSD is essential to form the two-thirds necessary for the adoption of any legislation to revise the Constitution.

“If the PSD has to be in the equation, the PS alone is not enough to make two-thirds with the PSD. And Enough isn't enough either. The Enough is not enough”, he said.

The Prime Minister therefore defended the need to “find platforms to approximate positions to review the Constitution”, admitting that “the story tells and the heritage of each counts”, in a reference to the PS.

“ To be even clearer, the PS is a party with which we count may be the height of this responsibility. We're counting on it. We hope that the PS is ready to settle with us some important developments in the constitutional text”he did.

Montenegro has ensured that it has no commitment to Aquis in this process, only an agreement on the timetable for initiating the process in 2027, but has left a warning.

“ We're not excluding anyone. We will be faithful to the material limits of the constitutional review, to the fundamental axis and architecture of our political system and to the commitments we have been collecting over the years.”he did.

The leader of the PSD also left a direct message to the Secretary-General of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, who had asked for a public commitment from the Prime Minister on this subject to examine the next State Budget.

“ It is very beautiful to demand from the PSD responsibility and sense of respect for the political and democratic history of the country and its constitutional tradition. But it was not the PSD to break the constitutional tradition” of not giving office to a government and preventing him from executing his program after winning elections, pointed out, in a reference to the second executive PSD/CDS-PP led by Passos Coelho.

Montenegro also added that it was not the PSD that prevented the election of a president of the Assembly of the Republic from the victorious benches in the elections.

“ Do not come on top of us display a moral authority that they do not have or have inferior to ours, that we will not admit”, he said.