Lisbon – The president of the CDS-PP, Assunção Cristas, today assumed the legislative objective of liberating “the country from the bonds of socialism,” admitted not knowing if this will happen in 2019, but promised to work for this goal.
Assunção Cristas was the guest of a lunch, in a hotel in Lisbon, in the Portugal-United States friendship association and explained the party’s electoral objectives during the question-and-answer period.
The CDS, he said, wants to “be part of a right-center alternative” with one or more parties, given that “the country needs to break free from the bonds of socialism” and the last three and a half years, with the PS and the support of the left, was “a parenthesis and a postponement,” for having missed the “best external environment of which there is memory.”
It will be already in 2019, she asked, and she herself gave the answer: “I do not know, but that is our goal and that is what we are going to work for.”
One thing that the president of the centrists is sure of is that a vote in the CDS will not be “a vote in the PS”, again refusing any post-electoral agreements with the socialists, in counterpoint, he said, of what happens with PSD de Rui Rio .
Assunção Cristas also recalled that a few years ago, after reading the constitution, she was frightened by what could be done with the constitutional text by a majority on the left.
“In the hands of a left majority, still further left, [the Constitution] is truly dangerous,” he said, promising his party’s proposals to change it in the next constitutional review.
The CDS has scheduled a motion of censure to the Government Wednesday, which will be hit by the left-wing counterparts.
The next legislative elections are scheduled for October.
