This Saturday, the President of the Republic defended the need to “visualize an alternative” in order to maintain sanity in the political system, adding that “only a very strong opposition” allows “regime agreements.”
Speaking at the “Portugal XXI: Country of the Future” meeting held today at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa dwelled on the challenges facing Portugal and mentioned “the much debated issue of institutional conditions for the economic”.
“There are institutional conditions that are being acquired in Portugal: governmental and parliamentary stability for four years, four and a half years. It should be in Europe, as far as I remember, the only country with an absolute majority of the party”, said the head of state, before noting that this majority also exists in Greece “thanks to the electoral system”.
However, Marcelo emphasized that this absolute majority is “not enough”: “The sanity of the system is something more: it has an alternative or visualizes an alternative that alone allows it, namely, regime agreements.”
“Only a very strong opposition is strong enough to make agreements with the regime. Otherwise, she doesn’t do it: her cycles are so small, so small, so short, so short, that she can’t make agreements with the regime. They are always unreliable.” , he said.
Listing topics for regime agreements, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza said that “there are some that are easy to do: the energy transition is pretty much simple, the digital transition is very simple, health care is more difficult, welfare is more difficult, though easier than health” .
