Socialist Party deputy secretary general João Torres today accused the PSD leader of “not telling the truth” about the country’s economic growth and transmitting a message that “does not correspond to reality”.
Speaking at the opening session of the Primavera University, an initiative promoted by the Santarém PS, held today at the auditorium of the Association of Municipalities of the Tejo Valley, João Torres argued that in recent months, “indicators made public by national and international institutions of unquestionable credibility have refuted the opposition’s narrative”.
“When the opposition, and in particular PSD leader Luis Montenegro, accuses the government of impoverishment and says, even at the end of November last year, that the government is turning the country into Europe’s broom wagon, he has certainly exaggerated the language and I would even say he doesn’t have the truth,” he said.
The deputy secretary general of the SP recalled Portugal’s economic growth in 2022 and the Bank of Portugal’s projections released on Friday, which update economic growth upwards to 2.7% in 2023, to emphasize that, “with the SP, the country is on the growth podium” and “in the growth lead”.
João Torres stressed that the PS wants “more and better” and “never loses its ambition”.
“But to hear the leader of the opposition constantly accuse us of impoverishing the country, when it is precisely one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe, is something that should make us reflect on the type of strategies that are currently routinely and recurrently used to put across messages that don’t correspond to reality,” he said.
For the deputy secretary general of the Socialist Party, the argument that the SP is “impoverishing the country has the defect of not corresponding to reality”.
“Let the leader of the opposition say that with the PS, Portugal is the broomstick, because we in the PS will be there to say that the opposite is true and that, as all the statistical indicators have proved, with the PS, Portugal is in the vanguard of the European Union, of growth, but also of social justice and equality”, he concluded.
