« Rui Tavares is convinced that he is a prime minister »

The first debate of Friday night is among Nuno Melo (AD) Isabel Mendes Lopes (free).

Confronting why the debate tonight is not between Rui Tavares and Luís Montenegro and Rui Tavares, the first to respond was Nuno Melo.

« Rui Tavares is convinced that he is prime minister. In democracy there are no candidates for prime minister, there are candidates for deputies, » he said. « And this is a coalition of two parties. » Nuno Melo also exchanged the free with the left block: « Sometimes I confuse, » he said.

In turn, Isabel Lopes asked, « The question is, in fact, why is Luís Montenegro in this debate? The free one has always been very clear: if Montenegro, the candidate for the AD’s prime minister, did not come, Rui Tavares, who is our first-minister candidate, our main figure would not be in the debate. »

However, Luís Montenegro « chose to distort the rules in his favor » and « looked at the amount of parties with whom he had to debate and chose the parties with whom he did not want to debate, without having any justification. »

On the born

In defense, onlyThe need to invest in defense, which may create deficit, Nuno Melo ensures that the perspective that there will be no divestment in other areas is not an illusion.

« It is not an illusion and it is, moreover, an opportunity that gives me, » he said, still accusing the free of being « irresponsible, » and explained why: « When Portuguese military, facing real dangers, are for example in Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, the best that free has to say is that they end up with the NATO and put the Americans outside the equation. »

« The world is in real risks of war. And when it happens, Portugal in the context of NATO has to be up to the commitments it has established with its allies, » he said.

Already Mendes Lopes pointed out that « the Free doesn’t want to end the born, doesn’t want Portugal to leave NATO, ”and defends the“ European Community has to organize itself in a European defense community, ”and justified:“ NATO’s future is uncertain because of the US ”.

Already on compulsory military service: « In the current context, we do not consider that one should go this way. »

In this sense, Isabel Mendes Lopes argues that investment in defense implies “dignifying the armed forces to be able to be able to retention, and shot:“ The defense is not only made with weapons, ”he says.

About housing

About this notebook, free considers that housing is “very serious problem, an emergency”, which free wants to respond with a proposal to invest a billion million per year in public housing. For the party, it is critical to « ensuring that we do not have these fluctuations, that we are not in the hands of the market and real estate speculation. »

« I admit to fulfill what is in the AD program, » said Nuno Melo, in turn, if the public warranty for young people in buying home is to maintain.

The AD representative also accuses the free of a “stalinist drift” with an attempt to lease forced. And he adds that free made « almost everything that was coming. »

“It’s not true,” replied Mendes Lopes, recalling Nuno Melo that the government “had a year” to regulate the emergency fund for housing.

He exchanges again to Nuno Melo, who recalls the advances the executive made in the careers of public administration.

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