“I respond by shaking my head and saying that Montenegro is selling false hope to the people,” accused Rui Tavares, at the closing rally of the Livre campaign for Sunday’s local elections.
Rui Tavares was responding to the words of the PSD president in Aveiro, who today urged the Portuguese to choose “very well” the mayors, advising them to vote for “the most qualified and most aligned” to establish a partnership with the Government.
The deputy cited the example of the Lisbon City Hall, where he is still a councilor and has seen Carlos Moedas with governments led by both the PS and the PSD and CDS-PP.
“I saw Carlos Moedas with a PS government: useless. And I saw Carlos Moedas with a Montenegro government, still useless, did nothing. We have proposal after proposal approved in the council that Carlos Moedas did not demand from the Government,” he accused.
The president of PSD today appealed to the Portuguese to choose “very well” the mayors in the upcoming Sunday elections, advising them to vote for “the most qualified and most aligned” to establish a partnership with the Government.
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According to Rui Tavares, “it’s better to have more demanding mayors who know how to demand from the Government” and who “don’t have problems confronting the current Government.”
While emphasizing that all voting choices are legitimate, Tavares highlighted that the country is leaning to the right and urged voters to rebalance the country’s politics, which currently has a government and a president of the Assembly of the Republic on the right, a President of the Republic from that political family, and the largest opposition party on the far-right, Chega.
“Now is the time for the Portuguese, who never wanted to put all their eggs in one basket and who don’t like the direction politics is taking, to rebalance politics, that will help us all,” he advocated.
