Paulo Rangel: “Portugal is anesthetized”
It was not like his first words to speak inside, it would be perfectly possible to confuse and think that Paulo Rangel won the PSD. The MEP presented himself at the congress as “a simple and modest grassroots militant totally committed to the victory of the PSD in the January legislatives”, but after setting off to talk about the state of the country. And attacking PS governance.
The legislative ones are “an enormous objective, but achievable”, given that the Portuguese are disappointed with the government of António Costa, which in the last six years “has been limited to managing instead of governing”. “We see and we find skepticism, stagnation, we see in each person, each company, impotence and sometimes even fatalism”, he shot.
Costa has “gone out”, is “no soul, no flame, no will” and is now unable to come up with a “strong alternative”.
In Rangel’s understanding, there are a number of issues that the Government has postponed or allowed to derail. The end of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in health, a fiscal reform (which Rio also wants), the lack of teachers or TAP’s recovery plan, “a scandal that the Government leaves for the next legislature”.
The country needs a new “design”, “Portugal is anesthetized”, defended Rangel. For this reason, he promised to stand beside Rio in the legislative campaign and also go out into the street.