“We must not waste any more time.” Passos Coelho challenges the Government to implement the reforms it presented to the country

Former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho defended this Friday, February 27, in Coimbra, that the government should not waste any more time in bringing to the Assembly of the Republic the necessary transformations and reforms that it presented to the country.

Speaking at the University of Coimbra, at the end of a tribute to Júlio Pereira, former director of the Security Information Service (SIS), Pedro Passos Coelho considered it “very important” that the Government does not miss “this historic opportunity to move forward and make changes”.

“After eight years of António Costa, the Government was in a major paralysis in terms of economic transformation. It was governed by sight, as they say, and thinking about day to day life and not about the futurewho arrived”, said the former leader of the PSD, who governed the country between 2011-2015, during the intervention period of the troika.

Stressing that people are not satisfied and that they ended up removing the socialists from power, giving a “very clear signal that they wanted a profound change”, Passos Coelho urged the Democratic Alliance Government not to waste time in the necessary transformations.

“For known reasons, these last two years were consumed by elections and some instability, and, now that this electoral cycle has closed, It is time to put into practice the great promise with which the PSD arrived at the Government and, to achieve this, we must now not waste any more time and bring the necessary transformations and programs to parliament”he defended.

For the former Prime Minister, it is not because there is no absolute majority that Governments are prevented from presenting their ideas, projects and reform proposals.

“I hope the Government feels encouraged to do so”, he stressed.

Questioned by journalists about his latest public appearances, Passos Coelho rejected having returned to active politics, saying, however, that he is not inhibited from making considerations that “may have public resonance”.

“It’s not the return of anything, because I’m not a candidate for anything, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t occasionally reflect from a public point of view and make some contribution to what’s happening and, to that extent, I’m pleased to know that some of the concerns I have can have some echo and can be heard.”