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After five months as a PSD leader, Rui Rio gave the first interview to a TV, TVI. For 25 minutes, Rio took advantage of the opportunity to send messages inside and outside the party. In the European Parliament, he assured that, whatever the outcome of the elections to the European Parliament, he would not resign. Regarding the budget, did not disclose the meaning of the vote, but stated that he was convinced that the "thing" approve the document. However, if that does not happen, he argued that Costa should make PSD / CDS possible.
Rio appeared smiling on the screen, did not leak from topic, but also did not give much news. In the party (the critics) sent messages. Out of the party (voters) have tried to pass the image of credibility. And for that, he did not hesitate to say that he still wanted to go beyond Rye: more rigor in the public accounts and a (still) weaker deficit
[Maus resultados nas Europeias] did not compromise the permanence because the party was dishonored. The Europeans will be in May [risos]. I do not know if it was in August that they wanted to change party leader, so this is not at all concerned. Now, of course, if the PSD has a lower result, it's bad. If it does not go up, it's bad.
Rio did not give up sending a message inside the party: his opponents refuse to go through internal conspiracies and try to remove them after the Europeans, because that will not happen not. Not on foot himself. Whatever the outcome, Rio said with the letter-all this does not resign. Not even the most disastrous result. Also because his dismissal would be the "ruin" of the party, which would be without a leader in May with elections four / five months later. Regarding the expectations that he has for these elections, Rio said that "what is fundamental among Europeans, first and foremost, is that the PSD gets up and wins then preferentially ".
"Rio stated that in the last elections to the European Parliament, the PSD" was a very big distance. Seven. Therefore, six [do PSD] plus one [do CDS]. There are only six deputies. "It is not clear here if Rio is lowering the bar to win if it rises or criticizes the previous results (in a list headed by Paulo Rangel, his potential challenger in the At the time, in 2014, most commentators considered that the gap was small, since there was a great erosion in the PSD / CDS government and that the coalition represented less than 4 points PS (31.46% -27.21%) Even founder Mario Soares called the PS result "Pyrrhic victory" in a criticism that paved the way for the end of the 39, Antonio José Seguro But Rio thinks it was bad and clearly defined the goal: to climb
By the way, let me tell you, if the budget were to be introduced gradually, Dr. António Costa should allow to a PSD government with the CDS.He did not say in 2015 that only led the government from Passos Coelho because he's got a majority on the left? If I could not now, in a consistent manner I should say: ready, I'm sorry, I support a PSD government and the CDS, which really won the elections in 2015, was the one that was the most voted. "
Not even the most serious passers-by would remember to make such a suggestion at the moment, but Rio did not hesitate to do so." With regard to the approval of the budget, Rio argues that if the document did not pass to Parliament with the votes of the left, António Costa, to be consistent, should allow a PSD / CDS government until the end of the legislature,
Rio said several things that would please passersby, including that it was Passos Coelho who "really won the elections in 2015." But – even in this hypothetical scenario – he would hardly agree to govern a year (or less) until the end of the legislature.In addition to that with Asuncion Crests, he maintains a cold relationship.The most certain thing in this circumstance would be – and Rio does not exclude this availability when he speaks to his close relations – the President of the Republic makes early elections.
There are many people in my party and not only who say: ". But how can I say if I vote against a document that does not exist? (…) What is logical is that they [geringonça] get a budget and that they can approve it. If it was otherwise, it was bad for all. This is not a matter of national interest, it is about saving the skin. And, therefore, everyone will understand. "
Rui Rio began by clarifying that he will not say that he is voting against the budget just because it is prepared by a PS government. It's something you have defended as a point of honor.If there is no document, it will not be against the default or the principle.It is a sign in the PSD, for its Many critics have blamed the leader for not assuming that he will vote against the budget, but Rio remains free from pressure and he does not give in to what he defines as "a different way of doing politics. "
On the other hand, he tries to make the PSD a" no-problem. "Indeed, they believe that there is no three without four – if PS, PCP, EPI and Block are included in the first three budgets – and they will certainly do it in the 2019 budget. For it would be worse for all smuggling partners
S & P was Prime Minister he will have it was much smaller in what would be fiscal policy. What this government is doing, it's a little crazy and it destroys automatically. Which means: If there is a recession tomorrow, Portugal is not as well prepared as it should be. The Prime Minister said that it is not the old man. And I think he's right. The PS is much more the cicada than in the history of the cicada and the ant, as you know, the ant during summer work, in winter has the food product of his work, and the cicada does not work. And then when it arrives … "
Rui Rio has no problem, even though he is unpopular, saying that he would have made a return of income in one way "more cadenciada" and that "would have exploited the growth" to further reduce the deficit.The leader of the PSD is a follower of "public surpluses" and wanted to denounce the fact that, in a period of growth, instead of saving reserves for stormy weather, the PS spends all the wind (the requirements of PCP and BE)
The president of the PSD even uses the fable of La Fontaine, the "Cicada and the Ant", to suggest that the PS is the Cicada, who does not care about the future Even with all the criticism (including from inside the PS itself) towards the more austere side of Mario Centeno, Rio would like to go even further in the rigor public accounts: "The deficit must be more controlled." Rio meant that the PSD under his direction was, however, the oven mi.
I will tell you one thing first. If I were Prime Minister, when I do, I will never question the balanced budget and I will do my best to reduce the budget debt. "
Rui Rio's first argument about replacing teachers' service time was and could have been taken from the chemical product of Mário Centeno's latest statements on the subject, in an interview with Público. Minister of Finance had stated that "it is not possible to question the durability of something that affects everything, just because of a specific topic."
After this setting warning that teachers are "very important" to the country and that the profession has been "proletarianized." According to Rio, if it were possible, it would be more than fair that teachers see their work recognized, even if they "win the wrong" and do not have, for example, "travel grants" as prosecutors.
deserve to win better but, after all, what is what Rio defends in this case – even Costa. "Without calling into question the budget of the State, it is necessary to take an intermediate position. Not the nine years that defend the unions (…) but rather a mixture of solutions. "Well, that's what Costa was defending in a biweekly debate when he was surrounded by" machinery "partners.
That by the polls … Now, a poll has been done that gives the PS a Up from a few feet and the PSD to a few pozzins.I can tell you this: I was not expecting anything else.With the teachers' strike, with the problem of Tancos, with l & # 39; The PS could only go up the polls, this is bad for the elections, but for the polls it was, of course, when I saw the result, it could not to be that. "
Irony, irony, irony. Rui Rio, who has come in the latest polls, has not missed the opportunity to use irony to devalue the results of opinion studies. What the leader of the PSD meant is very simple: it can only be a joke that the PSD arrives and that the PS comes when the socialist government faces so many problems (Tancos, cracks in the "strike" or teachers' strike)
I am very surprised, because in the internal campaign I mentioned it. Pedro Santana Lopes has this fascination of one day creating a party to the right of the PSD. This is not something that I admire a lot. It's a party legacy, it's part of the party's history and when that's the case, it's a loss for the party. Now, in electoral terms, I do not think so. If you leave, pinch the PSD a bit, fine tune the CDS, but the growth margin I'm looking for is not good. The growth margin is at the center, in the PS voters who do not turn left and in the abstention, those who do not vote because they do not see credibility. "
Rui Rio took advantage of being asked about a possible new party Santana Lopes to reduce this idea to an old desire of the former prime minister." Pedro Santana Lopes has this fascination, this n & rsquo; Is not something that admires me, "he shot, remembering that already in the direct campaign testified this appetite of the opponent .However, he said that he was not afraid of this new party and that a new party could even get a little PSD electorate (and CDS), but it will only be a pinch What Rio really wants is to win the electorate in the center, among the disaffected and the people who do not vote, using their "credibility." As who says: a new part of Santana n & # 39 will not enter the championship as Rio disputes.
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