The leader of the Aquida, André Ventura, today considered worse the Prime Minister become known as “father of incompetence and collusion of the State” than connoted with austerity.
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19/09/2026
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Lusa
“ Ai think that no one wants to be recognized, because this is bad and the Portuguese do not need it, as the father of austerity, but even worse is being the father of incompetence and collusion of the state ", said André Ventura at a press conference in Funchal.
The president of Aquida reacted to the statements made today, in Braga, by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, who said that he will not be “the father of austerity”, stressing that the Government will not align in facilitating and voluntarist measures that would make the money more expensive for Portugal.
“ Both are evil, but father of incompetence and cover-up is also not good ", added Ventura.
In his view, “what is happening with Luis Neves (Minister of Internal Affairs) is an attempt to cover up clearly and what is happening with fuels, the price of fuel and food is also pure incompetence”.
He said that Luis Montenegro over three years ago argued that it was necessary to “downgrade the price of VAT on fuel” at a time when prices “were not even one third close to what they are today”.
“ The leader of the opposition of that moment will understand and accept that the leader of today's opposition asks that the VAT of fuels go down ", vincou.
Asked about the situation of the fires that have occurred in the country, the leader of Aquistado opined that it is impossible to say that “they are the fault of the Minister of the Interior, because it is not correct and depend much on the weather, climate and the state of the land”, after the weather.
“ But, once again prevention failed and once again we are putting the lives of firefighters, civil protection and policemen at risk for brutal failure of prevention ", he considered.
According to André Ventura, “says the Minister of Internal Administration what he says” he did “very little” and for this “just see the state in which the firefighters are, the demands and demands that are the same as those that they did a year ago”.
Cleaning the land “was a disaster after the storms,” he said, considering that “it is impossible to fight fires like this, when the state is so incompetent, it cannot solve the ordering of its own territory.”.
André Ventura said that this “is not a criminal issue, but it is also a question of the inefficiency of the Minister of Internal Administration”.

