Presidential candidate Marques Mendes warned this Wednesday, December 10, that Portugal has a very divided parliament that has within it “the germ and threat of instability”, warning that “Portugal cannot take steps backwards”.
At the presentation of the book “Luís Marques Mendes – a political life”, by the journalist from Observer Luís Rosa, the candidate, was attended by the president of the PSD and prime minister, Luís Montenegro, and the president of the CDS-PP, Nuno Melo, the two parties that support him in the race for Belém, as well as several ministers and former social democratic leaders.
The former PSD president and candidate for Belém in the January 18 elections argued that the next President of the Republic cannot, firstly, “add instability to the instability that comes from abroad” and, on the other hand, must know how to deal with the national situation, which he classified as atypical.
“First on the positive side. A situation in which Portugal, on an international level, is well regarded. Prestigious”he stated, highlighting the distinction of the magazine The Economist a Portugal.
But, at the same time, with “a highly divided, highly fragmented parliament, which has within itself the germ, the risk, the threat of instability”.
“Now, Portugal cannot, in this plan, take steps backwards (…) Stability is not something of the past. It is of the past, it is of the present and it is of the future. Without stability there is no ambition”he said, pointing out these as the two main objectives of his candidacy.