![[Trending News] To Modorra](https://i3.wp.com/wm.observador.pt/wm-op/wide-circle/https%3A%2F%2Fbordalo.observador.pt%2Fv2%2Frs%3Afill%3A900%2Fc%3A467%3A467%3Anowe%3A0%3A0%2Fq%3A70%2Ff%3Awebp%2Fplain%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.observador.pt%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F10%2F20120439%2Fcolunista_flcosta_467.png?w=1200&resize=1200,0&ssl=1 "[Trending News] To Modorra")
Dr. Luís Montenegro is not a dishonest person. Nothing authorizes me to understand that it is unhealthy in your relationship with politics and the position you play, nor with the Portuguese. But it was reckless and disastrous.
Reckless, although well-intended, in the way he kept the service of the company that had been his own and is still from his family. Disastrous, perhaps badly advised, in the way he dealt with the subject, especially in the communication of last March 1.
The main recklessness, regarding the bounds, does not have to see with the potential conflicts of interest that will not be relevant or will not exist. It is clear that Dr. Montenegro wanted to protect his family, the children in particular, from the financial bleeding that happens whenever a professional embraces a political office. But as things unfolded, it will be difficult to him, regardless of the legal issues that may be resolved, free from the idea, probably false, that there was a subterfuge to escape the exclusivity imposed by the exercise of the position of Prime Minister.
Therefore, there is a reflection that imposes itself and that no one wants to speak. It is necessary to remunerate the rulers well and in such a way that it becomes unnecessary, especially the families in which the ruler is the main win of the aggregate, the maintenance of any scheme that safeguards income from work or services provided. It cannot be required that a qualified person, with a lifetime of work, has to dispense with everything and be obliged to opt for a very strong reduction of stippeth when personal and professional responsibilities increase as a result of assuming the functions of ruler. Enough of demagogies and we assume that it is necessary to pay well, very well, to those who govern us or is elected to represent us. What does not dispense that the rules are those who are, who is there has to comply with them, without margins for doubt. We all realize that scrutiny is relentless and inclected. In Portugal, being “government” is a pecuniary and reputational punishment.
And, by the way, maybe it was good to talk about anything else that no one wants to talk about. It is the need for their own professionals to create companies to enjoy a tax regime more consistent with tax reasoning regarding tax income taxes. The left will say, there is no right, who has them want to work? Shoot them with taxes. But for some reason, the left is, thankfully, to see it. For some reason the PCP knows it needs to conserve the weak representation it has, despite shaking motions, and the PS fears being tried at the polls.
I do not doubt that Dr. Luís Montenegro is, looking at the other party leaders, the best prime minister we can now have. There is no major party in the Assembly of the Republic, but it is with the PSD and Dr. Luís Montenegro that today, for now, Portugal must be governed. Therefore, it is not time for tricks and politics for Portuguese to see and entertain journalists. Hence we return to the disaster that was the communication of the last March 1st. Disaster accentuated by the collage of the whole government to a problem whose genesis is of an individual in nature and a private sphere. Naturally, it made public because the view is the Prime Minister of Portugal. However, it is inevitable that the Prime Minister's problems impact on government and governance, nothing justified the ministerial trim in that communication. Solidarity, accomplices, conniving? There will know. Or will they have a masochistic taste to sink with the commander.
I am one of those who understands no more explanations, pyrouettes or legal contorts around the subject of Montenegros and conflicts of interest. Simply, re-invoking the good intentions of citizen Luís Montenegro in the way he tried to compatible the family interests with the exercise of the position of Prime Minister, the killer circumstance, there is a suspicion that the Montenegro citizen will not get rid of. A media movement, a wave of argumentative repetition, endless wave of elucubations about the personal seriousness of the prime minister who disturbs the governance action and from which the PSD will not be riddled. Regrettably, it's anyway. A window of morbid curiosity has opened that will shake in homes, works, golf, friends, vacation, all that Dr. Luís Montenegro, plus the descent and ancestry, may have touched. Far will go the times of the simple Marqueses. There are even those who have tried, in a cumulus of abject falsehood, compare this episode that in no way damaged the state of another prime minister who is yet to innocent and has even been arrested.
If there is, the subject has become almost more important than the ill -fated strike of INEM. It is glued to the current PSD leader and takes the party behind. And, well understood, the crumbling of ministers who was packed with the Prime Minister on that fateful night of March. Even if they change the lead, it was the image of a group that in its own, with the best of intentions, accepts immolation in the square. Soon, they closed the door to the government's continuation even with a new prime minister. It didn't have to be so, but public perception, muscled by journalistic exercises, will be that.
Beyond the discouragement with which communication to the country of last March 1 was written and presented, the threat that was no more than a dry gunpowder, I refer to the motion of trust, should not have been done as it was. Of the two, one. Either the PSD and the government assume that they are in trouble and accept that it is the time to go to elections looking for a desirably absolute majority, or think they can stay in the mild heat from suspicions and let governance become a time to spend time until less bad times come. The Prime Minister even realized that he really had to present a motion of trust and opted for the clarification that will have to undergo new popular scrutiny. The parties and the President of the Republic have certainly realized this. Asking for confidence in the Assembly, if they do not have it, the PSD will have to start preparing its future to try more robust election victory in the next elections. If this should happen still under the baton of Dr. Luís Montenegro will have to be him and the party to decide. Their problem that will inevitably be ours. More of the same, it does not serve us.
However, despite the bad way the government presented to the country in the prime minister's communication is to underline the canhestra form as opposition reacted. They all came to exclaim that they don't, don't trust, behind Belzebu. However, it is quiet, they do not dare to vote for distrust and we will see if they have the manhood of denying confidence to the government is such a fear that have to lose again elections. Worse still, inconfestable fear, if instead of Dr. Luís Montenegro have to face the one whose name nobody means and in which everyone thinks. They even have nightmares to imagine the risk of seeing each other again with a government that is not just passing.
It is case to say that, as we are, we have a government that has ruled to win elections and an opposition that opposes the hope of not losing them. A game of shadows that resolves nothing. The problem is that, despite the hope that is contained in the lines I wrote, if nothing more is passed, the modor of the politicians who precede their stupor will keep up and we, with them, let us know.