Portugal Needs “Quick Justice” Instead of Reform, says Rangel
The candidate for the leadership of the PSD Paulo Rangel defended, this Sunday, that, instead of a reform of the Justice, the country needs “a quick justice”, reiterating that if he wins as an advantage, it will be a clear alternative “to the PS.
“We have to speed up justice. The PSD often talks about the reform of justice, but my dear friends, then I completely disagree with my internal opponent,” stated Paulo Rangel in a session with militants, in Guarda.
Eiu continued: “The reform of justice that we need is not the reform of the Superior Councils of the Public Ministry or the Superior Council of the Magistracy. This is not it. The reform we need is to have a quick justice. That companies do not wait for eight, nine, ten years for a tax decision. Let companies not wait eight, nine, ten years, or individuals or the administration, for decisions of the Administrative Courts. Let an insolvency not take four or five years.”
“When the machinery is useless, when the workers have already had to permanently leave for other branches, otherwise they would starve to death, when the creditors have not even been paid, since the facilities are in disrepair, are we going to recover the company?” , he asked. In Rangel’s opinion, in matters of Justice “we [país] we have to be quick and fast”.
In his speech, the Social Democrat also promised that, if elected president of the party, the PSD would be “a clear and ambitious alternative to the PS”. “We are not going to the new legislatives of January 30th with misunderstandings. We are going with the ambition of having a majority and of governing Portugal,” he stated. He added that the first objective of a PSD government is “to create wealth to fight poverty”.
“Gone are the times when Portugal had as its goal to be in the forefront. (…) We are so far behind that what is our horizon, what will happen to us if we maintain a socialist policy or a policy of collaboration with the socialists, it is to become, not the front platoon and not the back platoon, but the ‘broom car’ of the European Union”, he warned.
In his speech, he referred that the militants are free to vote in the evaluations for the party, clarifying that he does not belong to the group “The one who has now decided to discriminate against PSD militants in which some militants are free and there are others who seem who are slaves”. “This idea of free and slave militants is a manipulation of each person’s freedom when going to vote” and also “disqualifies people”, because for him “all PSD militants are equal and everyone has the discretion to make their own choices” .
For Rangel “there is no difference between what the free militants are and the slave militants as some want”. “If they choose me, the PSD will present itself as an alternative for the country, with ambition. Ambition to be the majority and to govern. With the hope of making the country create wealth (…) with a drive and a dynamism that creates trust and hope in citizens,” he said.
In his speech, the candidate for the PSD leadership also criticized the socialist governance and said that the country “is currently in a situation of stagnation” and “decline” and public services “have less and less quality”.