Africa-Press – Cape verde. The PAICV (opposition) considered today, in parliament, that Cape Verde is going through “its worst moment in its history of governance”, with this Government led by the MpD, placing the country facing “huge challenges”, especially with regard to transport” .
These statements were made by PAICV parliamentary group deputy Francisco Pereira, during a political statement, in which he accused the Government of deceiving Cape Verdeans with misleading promises.
“Cape Verde is going through its worst moment in its history of governance, as an independent and democratic country. The MpD Government led by Ulisses Correia e Silva has failed Cape Verdeans and has not been able to implement assertive and necessary public policies that protect people and guarantee the dignity and happiness of all Cape Verdeans”, he stated. the deputy.
“The country has been watching day after day the Prime Minister in a political casting operation trying to deceive Cape Verdeans with promises and a discursive line that is nothing more than lies and simplistic rhetoric without support in the real lives of Cape Verdeans. ”, completed Francisco Pereira.
For that parliamentarian, the MpD Government has faced Cape Verde with “enormous challenges” covering both institutional, economic and social levels, having highlighted the “authentic chaos in transport”, the “clear degradation of territorial cohesion, internal and external mobilities, reiterating that the country is experiencing a real lack of transport policy.
He also highlighted unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, economic stagnation, reduced income, global poverty and extreme poverty, economic debt, regional social and gender asymmetries, crime, slow justice, lack of ethics in the management of public affairs, the deterioration of sovereign risk which, in his view, today become national emergencies.
“Cape Verde is today on a path of impoverishment, the weakening of its economy and its social fabric, the country is at a crossroads, nothing that is truly decisive has been achieved with this Government”, he stressed.
For PAICV, this context requires broader intervention from the Government to guarantee social balance, stating that it is essential to recover and enhance salaries and pensions, especially for those with deficient income.
For his part, the secretary general of the MpD, Luís Carlos Silva, refuted the criticisms made by PAICV, stating that the country is going through its worst moment of political opposition.
“The deputy is wrong, Cape Verde is not going through the worst moment in its history, Cape Verde has already gone through the worst moment in its history, it went through in 2020 and 2021 when we had to face the poly-crisis, but you pretended not to see and now want to take advantage of the consequences of this poly-crisis. But Cape Verde is going through its worst moment of political opposition, an opposition that is harmful, an opposition that is fragmented into several chapels”, said the MpD deputy.
Such criticism, he added, is the opposition’s attempt to obtain a new parliamentary leadership, asserting that the country does not currently have a “major budgetary or sovereign risk, or a major public debt risk”.
“This is part of the past, we are currently restoring balances, fiscal frameworks and we are restoring them with great wisdom and with a great capacity for work and with a great capacity to produce results”, he retorted.
He claimed that the Government is reducing public debt from 160% to 110%, unemployment and poverty are reducing, so now, the Executive is rebuilding the country and restoring the data once achieved in 2019 with a view to accelerating Cape Verde’s development process.
For 2024, he concluded, the Government will consolidate and accelerate the economic recovery, returning to the development agenda, continuing to protect people and reporting the results.
The deputy and president of the Independent and Democratic Cape Verdean Union (UCID, opposition), João Santos Luís, on the other hand, responded to the MpD that in fact “things are not well” in the country.
“Regarding transport, it is in the eyes of all Cape Verdeans, in the discussion of the State Budget, the Minister of Finance was unable to deny that the Government remained silent and silent with the update of the 25% tariff when the Government is paying to the concessionaire in 2024 more than 700 thousand contos and four more ships, so that we do not have to mediate these situations”, he highlighted.
In terms of air transport, prices are “exorbitant” and the Government, accused the UCID parliamentarian, is not taking appropriate measures, defending a reorientation of transport policies.
“Regarding other issues listed, the UCID has said several times that the Government practices a pure welfare policy in the country, it is not concerned with working to reduce poverty in the country, these welfare policies contribute to people remaining in poverty (… )”, he declared. The Week with Inforpress
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