Urges PS to present its own motion of censure
Socialist MEP Francisco Assis has challenged the PS to present a motion of censure if the government does not move forward with a motion of confidence (as it intimated on Saturday that it might), arguing that “any middle ground will mean opting for the fetid swamp”.
In a post over social media, Francisco Assis warned that the “government wants to transform the PCP’s motion of censure into a motion of confidence”.
“In view of this, clarification is required: either the government is serious and presents a motion of confidence or, otherwise, the PS must present a motion of censure”, he says.
For Francisco Assis – a member of the PS National Political Commission – “any middle ground will mean opting for a fetid swamp and a permanent political crisis (…) Stability would be a false stability obtained at the cost of the dignity of institutions.”
This is clearly Mr Assis’ opinion, but the consequences of a failed motion of confidence would also throw the country a completely ‘homegrown dilemma’ at a moment in the wider political sphere when there is no logical space for one. Francisco Assis is thus piling even more pressure on his party to ‘react’ to what many see as a ‘politically manufactured crisis’ that has little bearing on anything affecting the lives of the people of this country.
