The demands made by the President of the Republic to the General Secretary of the PS are a new and final attempt by Cavaco Silva, in confrontation with the Constitution of the Republic, to save the PSD/CDS majority and create a new excuse in line with the institutional obstruction of the existing governing solution.
The only conditions required are those that compel the President of the Republic to abide the will of Assembly of the Republic insofar as it expresses the popular will. That is, comply with the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic with the implementation of the governing solution that has an attested institutional basis.
The PCP reaffirms the "Joint Position by the PS and the PCP on the political solution" which was made public on November 10 and conveyed to the President of the Republic during last Friday’s hearing.
There is no reason for the President, in view of the unequivocal and public statement by the four parties which have a majority of MPs in the Assembly of the Republic, to demand conditions and guarantees which, certainly, he not only not demanded but knew did not exist to impose the nomination of Passos Coelho and the formation of a PSD/CDS government, whose guarantee of being lasting was displayed with its predictable rejection by the Assembly of the Republic, materialized eleven days after its nomination.
Fifteen days after the rejection of the PSD/CDS government, fifty days after the elections to the Assembly of the Republic, with the position now expressed Cavaco Silva takes yet another step towards the degradation of the political situation, in the dragging of the crisis and an institutional confrontation that he himself created.
The PCP reaffirms that this new attempt by Cavaco Silva seeking to subvert the Constitution of the Republic will have a matching democratic response by the workers and the people. Cavaco Silva thus assumes full responsibility and political and institutional consequences for the decisions that contribute to degrade the national situation and promote the confrontation between bodies of sovereignty.
