António Costa. "The PS is not the old man looking for João Ratão"

The hotel room from Rome to Lisbon was full to overflow, but it was not too big. At least three hundred socialist activists took part in the last session of the "PS on the Move" initiative, which distributed five-day ministers and national leaders in the country's 18 districts to prepare for the debate on the issue. State of the nation.

António Costa was the only intervention of the night. The Secretary General of the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister took stock of governance, as planned, and reacted to what he saw as the new "mantra" of the opposition: the need for action. a central block

. right said that there was going to be a "plan B" and there was not, in the second that the devil came there, he summed it up. Now, he said, "They say this government solution does not work and you need a central bloc." And he threw to the audience, where the ministers Mário Centeno and Maria Manuel Leitão Marques were present: "The PS is not exactly a little boy who is looking for a João Ratão.We are a party with his own identity and its history, with a lot of pride and a very clear program to lead and followed step by step, as he did in this legislature and will surely continue to do so in the next ", has-it- he underlined, before the applause of the militants.

António Costa reaffirmed, "Economic way of the legislature, such as the weak public deficit, the economic growth and the low unemployment:" A way which gives good results is a way which must be continued. "

" For three years, we have shown that government, it is possible to find stable, sustainable and effective government solutions for the country, "he said. That is why, he added, the PS party "for this debate with confidence, that this solution proves in the end that it was a success and therefore deserves to be repeated until 39 in the next elections. "

"There are many nervous people Next, the state budget, on which" there are many people who are nervous, "continues emphasizing that" discussions take place in the government between the government and the Assembly of the Republic and the PS with each of the four partners. "

Everyone," he stressed, "prepares it" by presenting its priorities, seeing and measuring the possibilities of reaching them and striving to reconcile the different priorities and to have a budget in place. He added: This is how it has been done in the last three years, so "there is no reason not to do the same in 2019."

The Prime Minister so left the message, addressing directly to the partners: "the Portuguese would not understand and would not forgive us that having demonstrated that it was possible to break with austerity by keeping us in the # 39, euro, if we had the greatest economic growth since the beginning of the century, the biggest reduction in unemployment, employment, we would lose everything in this last year of the legislature by the haste to arrive elections and disturb what needs to be done calmly and serenely it had been done in previous years.

"For our part, all fiscal years correspond to the essence of the policy, namely that, in the face of unlimited needs and limited means,"

"We can not make a no more than the leg "

In his speech, the leader of the PS was still talking about health problems, the only subject he said" want to spend time. " He defended the arguments reiterated by Minister Adalberto Campos Fernandes, stressing that "public policies can not be defined according to the perceptions of each or the development of what exists here and there".

that "in spite of everything, it does not happen" and that we must continue "year after year".

"It is essential to ensure stability in politics because otherwise we return to what we have achieved or because the law takes over or because we have gone one step further than the leg. "And he warned:" Up to now, every step was done with confidence that we could give it, we liked to do a lot more, but you can not do it all at the same time because it did not do anything sustainable. "