Rui Tavares warns that what is at stake are the conditions of governability

The spokesperson for Livre stated today that the President of the Republic's warning about the conditions of governability, considering that what is discussed in the legislative elections is not who comes first, but who has the most deputies.

“I have been talking about this for a long time and, finally, even from the President of the Republic we have this reality. The whole discussion about who comes first is a completely spurious discussion, the essential discussion is, and the President of the Republic is now telling us this, governability, who ensures the conditions for governability”, said Rui Tavares at the end of a visit to the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal.

For the leader of Livre, there must be accountability for the functioning of democracy, which implies seeing who has the most deputies and who can have the most coherent and consistent majority and, whoever does not have it, allowing a new government to govern in full.

Rui Tavares considered that what the President of the Republic is trying to avoid is a situation in which the Prime Minister of the most voted party is appointed but, in parliament, his program is rejected, leaving the government in management until March of the following year.

And he added: “More than that, the next President of the Republic has to come and, after that, elections have to be scheduled and we spend a year marking time with a lot of important things happening in the world and Portugal unable to implement policies.”

On Thursday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stated that he wants to appoint a Government with the certainty that the respective program will be made viable in parliament, which he considered to be “the fundamental issue” in this matter.

“The warning from the President of the Republic is essential, what we are discussing here is not who will come out first. That is what we will discuss on Saturday and then the following weekend in the national football championship, but this is not the super league, it is called parliamentarism”, he insisted.

In his opinion, in order to have conditions for governability, the parties must look at the current political reality and, at the moment, there are three blocks that assume they can govern together, one on the left, another on the democratic right and, finally, the extreme right, which everyone says they cannot govern.

“If it does not govern with it, the extreme right will only govern if it has an absolute majority,” he stressed.

This leaves the left-wing bloc and the democratic right-wing bloc, he pointed out.

“It could still happen like in the last elections and the left will have more deputies than the democratic right,” he concluded.