The new Government of Portugal – What to expect?
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, scheduled the inauguration ceremony of the XXIII Government of Portugal for 5 pm tomorrow, Wednesday, at the Ajuda National Palace.
Two months after António de Janeiro’s legislative majorities on 30 January, Costa will continue to hold absolute power, now with a need to negotiate with any other party in the Assembly of the Republic. Will be better? Will it be worse? Time will tell.
The certain António Costa has freed himself from his former far-left partners and now has no excuses to abruptly execute the program presented to the Portuguese.
In reality, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has radically changed the international scene and uncertainties abound.
With a war in Europe that few can expect, the constraints are so great that no one can reliably predict what the future holds. For all these reasons, I think that more than ever, I need the various interlocutors to be involved in our common destiny and to strive to create powerful bridges for good governance.
The national entities of sovereignty are expected a national collaboration of free and open risk, in this time of great turmoil, in which the interest must always occur on divergences or small quarrels that are entertained in common duty or good.
On this path, which I consider important to tread, the Prime Minister did not start well. The leak of information that led to the public knowledge of the list of ministers to be sworn in before being presented to the President of the Republic, constituting an unrepeatable incident.
Likewise, criticism of the composition of the new government was not long in coming and could not be relevant. Several sectors of Portuguese society accuse him of being too centralist, of including only personalities from the capital and of restricting himself to the “entourage” restricted to the Prime Minister. within the Socialist Party, including the federation of Porto, there are those who express discontent for not including the ministers from the North.
Despite António Costa doing everything to maintain a good relationship with the President of the Republic, he wants to find it with Parliament, since the conditions that the war brought have already arrived to occupy the time in the sense of solutions for a governance that is expected to be full of difficulties .
Governance will have the consequences of the war, which has already led to a general increase in food and many basic necessities. A government has to deal with the thousands of people who have Decranians, respond with diligence and humanism. A governance cannot deliver, especially with the partners of the European Union and the members of the Atlantic Alliance. A governance that cannot fail in the proper use of European funds, essential to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and revitalize the Portuguese economy. In short, good governance that does not defraud the more than two million Portuguese who put their trust in António Costa and the Socialist Party.
In this time and again with fear, I fight for the government of its enormous responsibilities and to be able to respond again, Portugal is up to the great challenges that will respond to it from the heights.
At the international level, I advocate and pray that the war will quickly cease and that just and lasting paths of concord and peace will be found.
In the 21st century, when the last days of war were played out, like war destruction images did not go back, like war destruction images.
Enough of all the horror and suffering.
Enough of seeing millions of people in despair who do not spare innocent children, women and old people!