Iberian Solidarity - Mário Soares

The "old ex-president dinosaur", Mário Soares,

has spoken out again,

this time in Spain,

against the government of Portugal.

Praising the Spanish PM, Mariano Laroy,

for refusing to comply with a 4.4% GDP deficit,

chosings rather a 5.8% deficit,

critisizing Passos Coelho for not following suit.

Unfortunately, Mário Soares seems to forget,

that Spain is not an international "beggar",

Spain isn't limited to strict rules dictated by the "cruel" troika,

or under the control of the"brutal Mrs. Merkel",

Chancellor of the hated German government

(according to the socialist party,

who were responsible for the bankruptcy of Portugal,

with the disastrous Socrates regime,

which ended in begging the troika for an emergency bailout,

signing an strict accord of fiscal containment.

The socialists agreed to extremely restrictive measures,

which would cause a deep reccession and millions of unemployed).

Pity this old socialist did not critise Socrates

during the ruinous socialist regime of corruption and greedy

auto-enrichment which brought Portugal to this desparate

financial and economic situation).

Soares writes:

"The current Portuguese government aims to be

a good student of Mrs. Merkel

while maintaining excellent relations with the troika

with its policy of austerity at all costs,

is imposing killer cuts that affect

a very large part of the population."

Rajoy has changed the goals of the deficit

"not to provoke the most dangerous manifestations

of popular discontent,"

despite the fury of the German Chancellor

and Brussels".

The austerity policies are "counterproductive,"

concludes Mario Soares, in the same article,

"as demonstrated by Greece and Portugal."

That is, "it increases the recession,

causing unemployment

to grow to unacceptable extremes."

Soares said that Portugal and Spain

"should raise their voices, together,

against this state of things."