
As a result, Portugal Prime Minister Jose Socrates, presented his resignation to the President of the Republic, Anibal Cavaco Silva, after the Parliament rejected Luso austerity measures proposed by the Government. Socrates, who requested the convening of elections after the announcement of his resignation, said that the crisis that started in Portugal is "unnecessary, avoidable and premature" and blamed it on the five opposition parties, which he called "negative coalition "(and only to reject the submission and involved in financial aid from the EU)
Given the rejection by parliament of the adjustment plan, Socrates said that the IMF proposed" austerity measures much harder, "and recalled that the plan had the support of the ECB. We must stress the difference between Portugal and Spain to defend its sovereignty and rejection of proposals by international organizations in exchange for their help.
After the defeat of Socrates in the Parliament and the announcement of his resignation, Passos Coelho, chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, center right) blamed the outgoing prime minister of "failing to build confidence" in markets and punish the Portuguese with successive austerity plans that did not work.
For his part, Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party, Jerónimo de Sousa, said Portuguese people have been victims of successive right-wing policies and claimed a sovereign policy, left to serve the people and the country plunged into a crisis that should pay their cause and not the Portuguese workers.
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