Paulo Portas (vice-primeiro ministro) e Pedro Passos Coelho (Primeiro Ministro)
Portugal is not a popular democracy.
The Constitution, according to rules, established a representative democracy,
however much it costs the radicals to admit.
The "people" voted and indicated that they wanted:
Dr. Passos Coelho as prime minister and the PSD / CDS coalition
to support a minority government in Parliament.
The "people" did not want an absolute majority,
much less one of the socialists (PS)
or "fictitious" majorities based on the rejection
of a representative democracy.
The Socialist Party (PS) paid a heavy bill
because of its ambiguity and tacticismo.
Costa suffered a double defeat: internally and in the whole country.
His exaggerated personal ambition to be Prime Minister
and the secretary general of the party,
made him overrun a person
(António José Seguro - the then secretary general of the socialist party)
and who actually obtained two national party successes,
offering now almost nothing in exchange, but shame and descredit.
Costa did not even gain more members than the PSD "separately" from the CDS.
He has got domestic trouble inside his divided party,
that forces him to dispute the legitimacy of his own leadership,
at a time when the circumstances require
serious discussion and democratic stability.
The fracture within the PS tells the portuguese
that there's no solution in sight.
In a sense, the socialists lost all that they gained in the turbulent years
after the revolution at the Luminosa Fountain
and crashed humiliatingly,
on account of their worst acquired and accumulated garbage
in the last few years.
The situation of a relative majority, stipulates a challenge for both the coalition,
as for the socialists (PS). The coalition has already signaled
their strong perception of the seriousness of reality.
Costa, on the other hand, not content with the disaster,
persist in ambiguity despite refusing "negative majorities."
It turns out that the PS, who won at the Fonte Luminosa,
never hesitated between a representative and a popular democracy.
As for the Secretary General, Costa,
has at least a moral and political obligation
not to dishonour this part of history
before the PS splits in two:
one to accommodate the radicals
and the other to serve the interest of the country.
"It would be a political obscenity that the next government would, absurdly,
to be led by the party who lost the elections.
Who loses the elections can not rule the country," said Pires de Lima,
when asked by reporters about how he saw the similarities
between the socialists (PS) and the communists (PCP),
after the results of Sunday's legislative elections.
The current economics minister, said he doubts
that the PS, the PCP and the Left Bloc were able to form a coalition,
due to their different understandings about Europe:
"The PCP defends an exit from the euro,
the Left Bloc supports the aggressive and unilateral restructuring of the debt.
None of these universes is reconcilable
with a party which has been loyal to Europe
and respectful of its European commitments, as the PS has been thus far. "
"60% of the people did not vote for the coalition,
but there were almost 70% of the people who did NOT vote for the socialists (PS).
There are more people who did not want the PS to rule,
than those who did not vote for the coalition," said the minister.
"And more than that: 90% of the people,
did not vote for the radical Leftists Bloc.
90% of the voters did not vote for the PCP (the communist party),
voters who did not want the two radical communist parties in the government,"
he added.
Therefore Pires de Lima considers,
"it would be absolutely absurd, that as a result of these elections,
a government is formed by those
in which more than 90% of the Portuguese did NOT vote."
In the case of a leftist government, it would be "absurd, a political obscenity,
a complete lack of respect for the wishes and the desires
expressed by the majority of the Portuguese population", repeated the minister.
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