Portugal “is increasingly leveled down” and “dependent on the State”
“ANDwe are living, in fact, a period where we are increasingly leveled below. More and more Portuguese earn the national minimum wage, more and more Portuguese have a salary that, if not the minimum, is getting closer to it”, he provoked.
Luís Montenegro, who participated this evening in the 39th anniversary of the Social Democratic Workers, in Vagos (Aveiro district), underlined that the country presents “a problem that is a great sign of poverty of a community and a country”.
“It’s just that there are people who work and at the end of the day manage to earn less money than people who don’t work and this is a sign of poverty. This is perhaps the best image of poverty in a community, in a country”, he maintained.
For the PSD leader, Portugal cannot continue to have people who get up to work and, at the end of the day, have a lower income than those who do not make that effort.
“This society is an unbalanced, unfair, poor society and we cannot conform to a society like this. The country really needs a lot of us, it cannot continue much longer to be governed with this irresponsibility, lightness and incapable of dealing with what belongs to everyone, to everyone’s future”, he said.
During his intervention of about 30 minutes, Luís Montenegro managed to prevent “supporting yet another governance that reaches a swamp, bankruptcy or a state of impoverishment” that puts Portugal at the tail of Europe.
“The prime minister can invent whatever statistics he wants, turn around the numbers he wants. Everyone knows that we are at the tail end of Europe and live worse than the other countries in the area where we fit in”, he added.
The PSD leader also took the opportunity to allude to the “cases and cases of the Government”, which “Mr. necessary to be part of Doctor Costa’s Government”.
“Before him, no one ever had the need to make these requirements, to have these rules, a procedure that is not to solve a problem for the country, but for Doctor Costa”, he claimed.
In his view, the problem lies with António Costa himself, who “does not know how to choose or choose poorly” and “wants to pass on the responsibility”, finding a way that any day “nobody wants to go to work with him”.
“Have courage and care for the members of your Government today!”, he concluded.
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