Saturday, July 20, 2013

Portugal crisis deepens as talks broken off. Main opposition Socialist party breaks off talks on 'national salvation pact' to ensure EU bailout remains on track.

Portugal's main political parties have broken off talks on a "national salvation" pact to ensure an EU/IMF bailout stays on track, leaving it to the president to decide how to proceed.

Political turmoil has already forced Lisbon to request a delay in the eighth review of the bailout by its creditors, which was initially due to start last Monday, until the end of August or early September.
The 78 billion euro ($102.5 billion) bailout programme and attached austerity policies are associated with the worst recession in Portugal since the 1970s.

Antonio Jose Seguro, the leader of the main opposition Socialist party, said on Friday that the ruling coalition had rejected most of his party's proposals aimed to renegotiate the terms of the bailout.
The crisis, which started as an internal political rift in the ruling coalition and expanded to a debate over the bailout plan, has threatened to derail Portugal's planned exit from the bailout and full return to debt markets in mid-2014.
The government says abandoning austerity would undermine Lisbon's credibility with lenders and investors.

"There were two different visions to exit the crisis. That being clear, it made no sense to continue negotiating for the sake of negotiating," Seguro told reporters after meeting President Anibal Cavaco Silva.
Seguro said the issue of whether to go ahead with 4.7 billion euro ($6.2 billion) in proposed government budget cuts had been a major sticking point.
Analysts say the situation is very uncertain but the president could still avoid an escalation of the crisis by keeping the ruling coalition in place rather than using his power to dissolve parliament and call a snap election.
 http://www.aljazeera.com
20/7/13
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  1. Seguro acusa PSD e CDS de inviabilizarem acordo de salvação nacional...

    O secretário-geral do PS, António José Seguro, anunciou que PS, PSD e CDS-PP não chegaram a acordo e responsabilizou os partidos da maioria governamental pelo falhanço das negociações. ....http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Politica/Interior.aspx?content_id=3332855
    20/7/13

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  2. Fracasa el intento de formar un Gobierno de unidad nacional en Portugal...


    1.La troika pide a Portugal un ahorre 4.700 millones de euros
    2. Los socialistas se niegan a aceptar los despidos de funcionarios
    3. Tampoco aceptan los recortes en las pensiones y los salarios

    La reforma del Estado que la troika pide a Portugal para que ahorre 4.700 millones de euros fue el escollo insalvable que hizo naufragar las negociaciones entre conservadores y socialistas para sellar un pacto de salvación nacional.

    Los documentos divulgados sobre el desarrollo de las conversaciones entre el gobernante Partido Social Demócrata (PSD, centro derecha) y el principal de la oposición, el socialista (PS), revelan el abismo de sus posiciones ante esa reforma, que supone un refuerzo de las medidas de austeridad aplicadas desde hace dos años.

    La reforma de la discordia ya está en preparación por parte del Ejecutivo luso, que planea aplicarla entre este año y el próximo, e incluye la reducción del número de funcionarios y cambios en el sistema de pensiones, como medidas de mayor impacto económico.

    Para la coalición conservadora en el Gobierno, el "compromiso de salvación nacional" pedido por el jefe de Estado, Anibal Cavaco Silva, debía garantizar el apoyo de los socialistas en el Parlamento a esos recortes, aunque no se profundizaba en sus detalles y quedaban abiertos a una negociación.

    Pero los socialistas exigieron, según el texto de sus propuestas, "parar las políticas de austeridad", entre ellas los ahorros de 4.700 millones de euros "acordados entre el Gobierno y la troika". El PS también rechazó los despidos en la función pública y los recortes en las pensiones y los salarios......http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/07/20/internacional/1374294109.html
    20/7/13

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  3. Portugal: Sozialisten verlassen Krisengespräche

    Portugal findet im Streit über den Sparkurs keinen Konsens: Die Opposition hat die Gespräche über das "Abkommen zur nationalen Rettung" abgebrochen.

    Die größte portugiesische Oppositionspartei hat von Staatspräsident Anibal Cavaco Silva angeregte Gespräche zur Lösung der Regierungskrise verlassen. Es wurde keine Vereinbarung erzielt, wie der Chef der oppositionellen Sozialisten, Antonio Jose Seguro, mitteilte. Seguro sagte nach Gesprächen am Freitagabend: "Es gab zwei Ansichten, wie die Krise beendet werden kann. Es war sinnlos, weiterzuverhandeln."

    In seiner "Rede an die Nation" sagte Seguro, der Präsident sei nun am Zug. Cavaco Silva müsse den von der Koalition erreichten Kompromiss akzeptieren oder eine vorgezogene Neuwahl ansetzen. Seguros Kompromiss sieht eine Beförderung des zurückgetretenen konservativen Außenministers Paulo Portas zum stellvertretenden Ministerpräsidenten vor. Cavaco Silva hatte gebeten, darüber hinaus einen Konsens mit den Sozialisten zu erreichen.....http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2013-07/portugal-krise-verhandlung-sozialisten-abbruch
    20/7/13

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  4. Portuguese President Backs Coalition....Silva Says There Won't Be an Early Election, Ending Weeks of Political uncertainty...

    Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva on Sunday threw his support behind the current ruling coalition, ending weeks of political uncertainty that came close to derailing the country's €78 billion ($102.5 billion) international bailout.

    Mr. Silva was forced to decide between keeping the current government and calling for immediate elections after the country's three main parties on Friday failed to agree on a "national salvation pact" put forth by him for long-term political stability.....http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324783204578620113339263412.html
    21/7/13

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  5. Portugal president says government should stay till end of term...

    (Reuters) - Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva said on Sunday he decided to keep the center-right coalition government at the helm to help end a weeks-old political crisis and keep an international bailout on track.

    The crisis threatened to derail Lisbon's planned exit from the EU/IMF bailout.

    "As the national salvation compromise was impossible to achieve, I consider that the best alternative solution is for the present government to remain in its functions, with reinforced guarantees of cohesion and solidity of the coalition, until the end of its term (in 2015)" , he said in a televised address.....http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/21/us-portugal-crisis-president-idUSBRE96K0B420130721?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
    21/7/13

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  6. Cavaco Silva mantém atual Governo em funções...

    (Em atualização) - "A melhor solução alternativa é a continuação do Governo atualmente em funções", explicou Cavaco Silva, na comunicação que fez, este domingo, ao país. Presidente da República afastou hipótese de eleições antecipadas e anunciou uma moção de confiança ao Governo no Parlamento.

    O Presidente da República disse, este domingo, que, não tendo sido possível um compromisso de salvação nacional, a melhor alternativa é a continuação em funções do Governo "com garantias reforçadas de coesão e solidez da coligação partidária até ao final da legislatura".

    "Na minha Comunicação ao País, apresentei, com toda a clareza, as razões pelas quais considero que, no atual contexto de emergência nacional, a convocação de eleições antecipadas não constitui uma solução para os problemas que Portugal enfrenta", afirmou, numa comunicação ao país, a partir do Palácio de Belém.

    "Assim, não tendo sido possível alcançar um Compromisso de Salvação Nacional, considero que a melhor solução alternativa é a continuação em funções do actual Governo, com garantias reforçadas de coesão e solidez da coligação partidária até ao final da legislatura", disse.

    Moção de confiança

    O Presidente da República anunciou que o Governo PSD-CDS vai apresentar uma moção de confiança no Parlamento.

    "Os partidos da coligação apresentaram ao Presidente da República garantias adicionais de um entendimento sólido para alcançar estes objetivos e a informação de que o Governo irá solicitar à Assembleia da República a aprovação de uma moção de confiança e aí explicitará as principais linhas de política económica e social até ao final da legislatura", afirmou Cavaco Silva.....http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Politica/Interior.aspx?content_id=3335290&page=-1
    21/7/13

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  7. Portugal: Präsident spricht Regierung Vertrauen aus...
    Keine Neuwahlen: Anibal Cavaco Silva will, dass die aktuelle Regierung im Amt bleibt....

    Portugals Präsident Anibal Cavaco Silva hat in einer TV-Ansprache der konservativen Regierung des Euro-Schuldenlandes auch nach dem Scheitern der Krisengespräche mit der linken Opposition sein Vertrauen ausgesprochen. "Die beste alternative Lösung ist die Fortsetzung der aktuellen Regierung", sagte Cavaco am Sonntagabend in Lissabon. Damit ignorierte das Staatsoberhaupt erneut die Forderung der Opposition nach einer sofortigen Absetzung der Regierung von Pedro Passos Coelho und der Ausrufung von Neuwahlen.

    Der Präsident kann die aktuelle Regierungskoalition im Amt lassen oder das Parlament auflösen und Neuwahlen ansetzen. Er hatte vor seiner TV-Ansprache bislang keine Signale gegeben, welche Lösung er bevorzuge.
    "Nationale Rettung"

    Cavaco Silva hatte die Parteien in der vorigen Woche zu einer Übereinkunft aufgefordert. Damit sollte eine Krise in der Koalition aus Sozialdemokraten und der rechtsgerichteten Partei CDS-PP beigelegt werden, die den Sparkurs des südeuropäischen Landes gefährdet. Doch die Regierungsparteien konnten keine Verständigung mit den oppositionellen Sozialisten über einen Pakt der "nationalen Rettung" erzielen. Diese fordern wegen der schweren Rezession ein Ende der Austeritätspolitik und wollen mit den Kreditgebern neu über die Bedingungen des 78 Milliarden Euro schweren Rettungspaktes von EU und Internationalem Währungsfonds (IWF) verhandeln. Die Regierung befürchtet dagegen, dass dies die Glaubwürdigkeit des krisengeplagten Euro-Landes bei Geldgebern und Investoren untergraben würde.....http://kurier.at/politik/ausland/portugals-praesident-spricht-der-regierung-sein-vertrauen-aus/20.016.218
    21/7/13

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