Augusto Santos Silva said that we are currently living in “very difficult circumstances”.
The president of parliament also said that the origin of the current crisis “is not political”, and that the Government resigned “not because it has lost the confidence of parliament, the institutional solidarity of the President or the support of the population or the party”.
“But rather because parliament was dissolved, because the President of the Republic understood that, by resigning the prime minister, the parliamentary majority did not have the right to propose an alternative prime minister,” he said.
For Santos Silva, this crisis “arose unexpectedly” and the “common people”, including PS activists and voters, “are, firstly, very surprised and perplexed, secondly scared, while are disappointed, others even angry.”
“And, therefore, we run the risk of moving from political stability, the political tranquillity that the country was experiencing, to exactly the opposite: to a situation of unrest, instability, in which people may lose a lot of the trust they have in us”, he warned.
Santos Silva thus maintained that, in this context, it is necessary to “show credibility, consideration, look at all sides, consider all variables at the same time” and “show humanity”.
Warning
Santos Silva warned that, in the current scenario, “there is a huge, big risk - it is better not to hide it or devalue it - which is the risk that the country could wake up on March 11th with a political situation in which the solution of the Government presented to it, is a solution dependent on the extreme right”.
“That extreme right that thinks that the blood of the Portuguese cannot be contaminated with the blood of Cape Verdeans, that thinks that foreigners are here to steal our Social Security, that the Portuguese can be divided into good and bad”, he said.
For Santos Silva, “the only guarantee there is for the country not to become dependent on the blackmail of this force is to vote for the PS party”.
The fear mongering that the "Far Right" might take control of the country are ridiculous. If the "Right" do take over, it's because the voters are tired of the way the "Left" have run the country. This is happening world wide. The Left never consider themselves "Far", but to many they are.
Lack of criminal prosecutions, open borders, legalized drug use, men playing on women's sports teams, use any bathroom you want, police restrained while the bad guys are emboldened. These are the policies of the "Left";.
So if there is a surge to the Right, people like Augusto Santos Silva need to look in the mirror and realize this is in RESPONSE to the actions of people like him, the way they ran the country.
For every action there is an equal and opposite response. Portuguese are tired of the government failing them. They are looking for a change.
By Joao Riveiera from Lisbon on 17 Dec 2023, 17:12
Funny how anything that isn't left is considered Far Right and terribly dangerous!! Ridiculous! The left hasn't done Portugal any favours!!
By aju from Beiras on 19 Dec 2023, 13:24
How so many Portuguese are forgetting the horrors of 50 years of fascist dictatorship is beyond me
By Eric Coplo from Alentejo on 20 Dec 2023, 09:59
Here we go, the same coordinated Communist 'far right' slur from the USA to the EU against ordinary and sensible people trying to call out the idiotic policies of the Lethal Left, who invariably live off the taxpayer and don't have to make a proper living in the real world.
By Russell Hicks from UK on 20 Dec 2023, 10:08
It never ceases to surprise me that anyone who is politically right of centre is always labelled,'FAR RIGHT'. The problem the left have always seems that even if everything is running pretty smooth,they invariably invent something to moan about.
Left wing Socialist are never happy unless they are trying to change things for changes sake. Usually with detrimental effect.
By Les from Beiras on 20 Dec 2023, 10:38
I hope that Portugal will not be the next victim of far right… we all know what this mean.. Chega is Trump and Putin together, far right will be the end of a glorious Portugal that is now the example of peace and more happy people … I truly hope that the Portuguese will use their brains and will remember Salazar and what fascist parties (as Chega) can do to our world !
By Pierre from Algarve on 20 Dec 2023, 11:09
Left And right in at least All the EU countries All belong to the same puppeteers : the Global Finance, the one that owns (ed) until 2018) All the Central Banks of planet Earth except for 3 or 4, and therefore has (had) the money printing Rilght machines (€, USD, etc. )
So needless to say its corruption capability to buy all EU governments (among others Port. 's PM & Pres. ) was just unlimited, I should say Infinite , Cosmic.
This is what's being blown up worldwide right now by that Q Plan : in other words : the Humanity escaped from its horrible slavery . We won the 5G War;
People are now slowly but ireversibly waiking up, and discovering that total Genocide or the humans . Thus the puppets like the ones in Portugal are beginning to realize that what's awaiting them is just military justice courts , the civil ones being all corrupt and neutralized.
Biden soon impeached, US military likely at the helm of the US for a while (cleansing).
The EU Right Now pushed by NATO into war against Russia to provide for soldiers : yesterday, Ursula v d L declared EU must drop the unanimity rule ! So this will cause EU's blowup : immediate Hungr-Exit, SlovakExit, etc ...
But Finland neutral by Yalta Treaty was forced into NATO, and declared yesterday 12 Nato bases are gonna be built at the Russian bord.
At any rate, the invasion of all Europe is Necessarty to eradicate the globalist cancer & metastases on the continent :
that plan called Q = the secret plan Alliance (Putin + Trump + Xi and their military) has been prepared for decades and is inevitable :
in the case of Europe : joint intervention of 2 Russian armies, likely in march april next year
Game over for the globalists & puppets. Gonna need Pampers
By Dan from Other on 20 Dec 2023, 13:31
Quite the Conspiracy Theory Dan! Dont know where you gather your thoughts from or what forces you to think in that direction but you're the fear monger!
For instance, if Biden were to be impeached it would have been done by now; they cant even get Hunter and have given up on that if you watched the news Thursday. The military can only take over the US if Marshall Law is enacted and Trump couldn't even do that last time when he was president because THERE ARE CHECKS AND BALANCES in the US government and in the constitution; sounds like a good thriller for a movie though, waiting for that and your next one!
Yes lots of corruption all over the world agreed and good for Sweeden to build the 12 posts on the Russian Border as Putin has every intention I believe to strike holding the "nuke threat" over everyone so thanks for that info. Trump will not get back in, too many people know he's crazy and have already said they wont vote for him so "lighten up" and look for the positive in this unhinged world. Don't take your eye off the real destroyer, climate change! Tell us where you're from, why are you hiding it if you have proof and believe what you're saying? Scared of what?
By Brad from USA on 21 Jan 2024, 01:23