Rio says Portugal prepared poorly for crises
“The internal and external delegates that we have to face do not sympathize with a lack of courage or with tactical calculations that do not aim to affect interests other than the national interest”, warned Rui Rio in the speech he made today to oss at the opening of the 40th PSD Congress, which runs until Sunday at Pavilhão Rosa Mota, in Porto.
On the domestic front, for the outgoing president of the PSD, “it is notorious that Portugal has prepared poorly for a scenario of adversity”, such as the one it is currently experiencing.
“Which are weak in terms of productivity, this government has never been able to develop a strategy of consequent action, added to the decapitalization of the economy and the very low rate of national reduction, which are low levels of margin and difficulty in our implementation of a strategy of economic and social reduction, which must have a lot of development must be a government priority”, he criticized.
For Rio, “it is this lack of courage to reform that has delayed the country the most and has” the country’s future.
“In a society that changes at a speed before living, everything is concerned with updating, and in a country that is averse to permanent updating”, he criticized.
The social-democratic leader returned, in his last one, to appeal to the country’s need for reformatonic reform, a termination that has always been defended.
“Reform, by nature, facing the powers is sectoral, over time, which taking advantage of the passivity of power to settle in accordance with its passages were, consequently, the longer the time, the greater the agreement and, consequently , greater is the web of individual interests in which of the force anchored in this warned.
In Rio’s opinion, “it is up to the political, replacing the democratic logic”, what “being able to act on the implementation of the planned structural measures is to put the collective above everything else”.
JF // JPS
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