foreign press highlights “political storm” in Portugal
The political crisis in Portugal has deserved attention in the international press, which focused on the first failures for the approval of the State Budget for 2022 and the most of the previous scenario, anticipated as early as next January.
“Portugal can see earlier advances with the coalition in tatters because of the Budget”, headlines ‘Euronews’, who pointed out as weaknesses of the Government with its left-wing allies to reap the recommended votes for the approval of the Budget.
In neighboring Spain, of course, the the country he did not let the political storm in Portugal pass through, that President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has already warned that he will dissolve the Assembly of the Republic, after the lead of the Portuguese Communist Party. “Without public accounts for next year, the legislature is on its way to an end,” the Spanish newspaper reports.
O ‘Political’ newspaper he underlined that an “extreme left budget revolt takes the Government of Portugal to the brink,” he titled, stressing that Prime Minister António Costa must make last-minute concessions to avoid anticipated previous ones.
AN France Press agency referring that “a political storm” in Portugal will lead to an anticipated evolution, referring to the role of the Left Bloc behind the State Budget. “Another party that has historically allied itself with the Socialists, exchanged barbs with the Government in the last tense days, making the chances of the 2022 budget receiving parliamentary approval seem small”, he said.
“Left union crumbles”, draw the attention of the French of the ‘Le Quotidien’. “After six years of a socialist government suspended by the support of the radical left, which is now preparing to reject its state budget for 2022, Portugal has found itself in a political stalemate that the conservative president intends to resolve by calling for advance notice”, announced the publication Gallic.
already the ‘Market Research Telecast’ considers that “it was less difficult for the Portuguese socialists to join the left to overthrow the government of Pedro Passos Coelho in 2015 than to reach an agreement now with the same groups on the General State Budgets for 2022”.
O ‘The New Indian Express’ highlights the political skill of António Costa, whose “negotiation capacity has kept his two minority governments in power since 2015,” they explain, referring to the “storm” with the peg lead.