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Why Did Portugal's PM Just Resign?
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On Tuesday, Portugal was plunged into a new political crisis, with the Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, resigning following an on-going criminal investigation. In this video, we take a look at Portugal's long-running political crisis, what just happened, and what might happen next.
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I want to know more about that Portugal with better living standards and thriving economy, because the Portugal I live in has a housing crisis, healthcare crisis, cost of living crisis...
Yes, I'm also very interested in that alternative reality 😂
@@puraLusa They surely read our media outlets that are always saying that
@@miguelcardoso1903 I don't know, I don't read portuguses media nor I have a tv. But sure is hilarious 😂
Ah that classic foreign propaganda 😂
@@MrPink- Its not propaganda, its detailed statistics that prove the distorted views created by populist newspapers that portuguese people like to read. It is exactly the same thing that happens in footbal news. if portuguese people started reading more cientific news and less populist news the outlook of costa would be so much diferent. But they prefer the easy to read newspapers, that the bigger the scandle gets, the bigger their sales get.
You forgot to mention that the country is in the middle of a housing crisis, the NHS is collapsing and school teachers have been on strike for months.
That isn't the reason he was dismissed. He is being accused of a crime of corruption which put his position in question.
professores tugas todos despedidos não fazem nenhum e são mais burros que os alunos @@DiogoJ1
Yeah, that's what usually happens when you vote for socialists. They should have known better
@@DiogoJ1 yes but the way the video represented him as the "economic miracle" and that he reigned well is pretty bullsh*t. The portuguese people never lived worse in recent memory
@@DiogoJ1 and as a Prime Minister, you are responsible for those problems too
Living standards are bad in Portugal. Numbers in foreign investment did go up and some other irrelevant points to the actual quality of life of the majority of portuguese. The GDP grows a lot with tourism, but for the population that means less houses, more hotels and AirBnBs, more expensive goods at cafes and restaurants, more expensive services in city centers, more noise in the streets at night instead of peace and tranquillity. That’s one the most common flaws of all politicians in several parties: it is to actually get the fuck out there and see the variety of problems people deal with every single day.
yes quality of life and public services are way way worse today then they used to be ( looking at NHS for a good example of this)
Belo Fadinho .
well some of the issues are mostly exclusive to Lisbon or other some major cities, housing is global, being worse in Lisbon, but mostly is fulled by high demand and low offerings in major cities, if you go to the country side is easy to found decent houses below the 100k and I mean houses not flat. you had record inflation, everything is more expensive...
@@rui518I don't know when the last time you looked was but prices have gone up 10x over the last couple of years and there's immigrants living everywhere, mostly Brazilians. kids barely learn to speak their native language/variant
Basically, Portugal's great, if you don't live in Portugal.
"Portugal economic Miracle" yes the whole population feels like this 👌😂😂
The portuguese miracle is simple: making everything wrong, but at the end things don't go as bad as planned!
the minimum wage is double since 2014 when Antonio Costa started... a lot changed. we have the lowest unemployment rate... Teachers and Doctors have a better salary, college students have free transportation... the population always wants more... but we grow a lot with this goverment
@@mikatuThis is the best description I have ever read of Portugal 😂
@@portugalgamermanel3404Portugal’s “low” (it’s still high) unemployment rate is a function of its low minimum wage. In a world w/ no minimum wage, there is no unemployment. Spain has way higher unemployment, they are have a higher minimum wage.
Portugal is an economic failure, without the EU the people would vote in hard line socialists and the country would become the next Venezuela… thank god for the eu I guess
@@benchoflemons398Italy doesn't have minimum wage. There Is still unemployment.
Being Portuguese I can say our economy is not thriving. I had to leave my country as many of my colleagues due to costs of living bring super high and getting not enough payed (civil engineer)
Mesmo. Países Baixos
Não sou engenheira, mas "tamo junto". Luxemburgo
abandonar a nação é uma tristeza..
@@dedeferreira98a nação abandonou-nos 😊
@@everkikomoo O governo abandonou, nao a nação.. A naçao é o povo, cultura, historia.
"Ontém foi ontém, hoje é um novo dia, olhe para o céu 'tá tão bonito.
Adeus."
-António Costa 2022
"Yesterday was yesterday, today is a new day, look at the sky it's so pretty. Bye."
-António Costa 2022
Ellááá xD
Que p*tu de vergonha!
Mas depois os totós vão votar PSDois, repetindo o ciclo vicioso desde o 25 de Abril
qual PSDois??'? pior que o PSum não pode fazer, mas podes sempre votar na extrema esquerda ou extrema direita lmao @@RedLine_Renesis
@@RedLine_Renesis é sempre o PSDois que vem limpar a cagada deixada pelo PSum. Quando depois as coisas melhoram, logo volta o PSum para desbaratar o que foi feito pelo PSDois.
BTW, afaik, no one in Portugal uses the -gate suffix for scandals. There are occasional attempts in the press but it's really not something the common Portuguese person will understand. It's a mostly Anglo-saxon thing.
It started as an American thing, Watergate and Nixon. Exporting it to non anglophone countries seems odd. Even using outside US is a bit strange, but the Brits do seem to embrance the suffux
It's a good translation that succeeds in conveying to us how important this scandal is. However, using the "afaik" abbreviation makes one sound like a child. And we only use "Anglo-Saxon" in historical or archeological contexts.
@@phoule76way to be prescriptivist. I’ve never met a child who knows ”afaik”.
@@phoule76I agree with the first part you said but what is wrong with AFAIK?
@@Steffsh I just don't like glib abbreviations such as IMHO, POTUS, etc., especially since the user was criticizing the language used in the video. How much time does a person save by abbreviating these expressions? If they're so trite as to be so easily shortened, just cut them out entirely. And just how sincere are they, even? A colleague of mine actually writes "Pls" instead of "please" in his emails, for example.
If Portugal undertook an economic miracle, then it's pretty sure the world needs a major economic revamp cause I've never seen Portugal as bad as now!
So, you were born in the last 10 years?
only enocomic miracle is how the country lasted this long under scocialist rulers
@@rrs_13 i was born more than 40 years and never see portugal so bad like now!!!!! portuguese people cant aford to rent or buy home, one of the higth taxes in EU!!!!!
@@hugonogueira4798 nem mais Hugo!
It's not that bad. Unemployment has never been lower.
This legislature is a lesson on how to completely squander an absolute majority in Parliament that in theory would ensure a stable government an ample opportunity to implement your program, just because one person refused to admit he's wrong.
If you look at Portuguese political history, this kinds of majorities tend to implode on them selfs.
I'm recalling Cavaco's last majority and even the Sócrates one
I mean as the UK is currently showing Majority government isn't all its cracked up to be. The 2019 election was supposed to end the 'chaos' of the coalitions, small majority governments and minority governments that had come previously, and yet all it resulted in was the most chaotic period in modern British political history.
3 Prime Ministers, a governing party at complete war with itself, millions of taxpayers money wasted, nothing getting done by the government, scandal after scandal, and the very worst of humanity on display. I hated David Cameron and Theresa May but the Coalition years were more politically stable than anything we've seen since 2019. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are three of the worst PM's we've ever had. Now we Brits are just having to count down the days we can end this Tory farce.
@@calumbishop7082 Germany is in a coalition of 3, and it looks way worst than Portugal at the moment... so no... I do not agree that an absolute majority is the problem...
(although in the case of the UK, yes it is.... 😅)
But... Ministers, not the prime, nor the president (their job is to be the visionaries and defenders of the constitution), should all go through what we all have to go through... a selection of the best for the desired position, based on facts based accomplishments in a particular area, ex: a super doctor for the Ministery of Health, a super Architect/Engineer/Urbanist for the ministery of infrastructures, etc...
Not "Galamba", or any other Baboon that studied economy, law or political sciences and is a rich lobbyist with private interests, should ever get the Ministery of Health or Infrastructures... for example... At the most Galamba could have been Minister of Economy, but not even that, because he was a dodgy guy, with private interests since the start... it's pathetic.. And don't even let me start on the UK, it looks way worst....
Corruption cases are often related to some of the selected MP's that sit at a Government table, with major private companies interests that are often hidden in far away offshhore paradises... It's a fact...
I do not think that Costa personally will ever be written in the "bad list".... and yet... He did make bad choices, that will haunt him for a long time... or not! Let's wait and see...
But, point is.... The whole system, and that is everywhere... is rigged!!! ...So it must be updated ASAP, or changed completely to say the least... In Portugal, the UK, in Germany, and everywhere...
Squander? He did with it almost exactly what he wanted. He just got caught. I called it from dsay one. This party is ROTTEN. And i' being nice
@@calumbishop7082is there an actual productive alternative?
at 7:00, that is a joke right? the living standards are at a all time low, house prices are crazy, young adults living in their parents house until over 30yo because they can't afford rent, purchasing power is at an all time low, taxes everywhere, we have like 30 different taxes for buying owning and driving a car, half the hospitals in portugal are closed, what miracle are you talking about?
It’s like they didn’t do the absolute bare minimum research, the trash economy and insane housing restrictions is the front of mind
It's about IMF and troika, aka, state finances - not about economy and well being.
it was our former PM who got us out of those problems 😭@@puraLusa
You should mention also that although Costa got the deficit under control, the Portuguese life standards have been dropping and the taxes increasing (mostly due to "taxas e taxinhas"), making a small decrease in direct taxes to go a bit more in indirect ones.
Somewhere along the line we have to pay for the Troika: all we did was reschedule the majority of the debt
true,portugal is not doing well inside of portugal.all this deficit control was because of tourism and external investment.without that it will be in ruins.with minimum wages low as 700 euros and so many taxes to pay is not easy.even our niegbour spain have a minimum wages 1000 euros now.Wake up portugal.
@@anibalsilva4997and who is responsible for the Troika?
@@joaodefreitas8617 Partido Socialista, óbvio.
@@joaodefreitas8617PS
One of the best ranking economies in europe at what cost? At the cost of taxing the portuguese population to infinity thats what you should have mentioned. Im portuguese and i know what im talking about. There’s 2milion new poor people today and 4 milion risking for the same fate in a 10milion people country explain that
This. I am a small business owner and I can tell you, if I had to declare every cent, I'd be bankrupt. Tax after tax after tax for the smallest things, IVA at 23% doesn't help much either...
"Economic Miracle" ...
As a Portuguese Tax payer, this is absolutely not true, we have not yet recovered our 2007 GDP... Portugal''s debt also increased, taxation is through the roof.. Portugal is better than 2013/2014 just because we had Troika here, since portugal Defaulted on it's debt...
TLDR is left so whatwere you expecting?
@@alexlehrersh9951 the Portuguese president decides today, I'll keep you posted 😁
You can prove anything if you're good at manipulating statistics. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that if you actually have to experience Costa's "economic miracle" in person.
@@andrecruz1965 Se o PS na assembleia não quiser ir eles não vão, basta meterem um voto de confianca e terem o apoio do PCP BE essas coisas.
ve o artigo 195 do crp, não te posso estar a explicar isto tudo num comentario mas a linguagem la até é bastanate acessivel
@@Victor10576
O Problema das leis, é que elas são abrangidas por interpretação. Estou a par da lei, o problema é que a interpretação de
"e torne necessário para assegurar o regular funcionamento das instituições democráticas, ouvido o Conselho de Estado" , é algo completamente subjetivo. Membros do PS podem achar que o que aconteceu não obriga dissolução, enquanto que o resto dos portugueses poderão enventualmente achar que um governo que já teve 12 demissões + inúmeros escândalos e investigações comprometem a confiança nas instituições públicas, e acima de tudo, a confiança da Europa sobre a execução do PRR.
E que fique bem explícito outra coisa. "Se o PS não quiser ir não vai" está completamente errado. Se o Presidente quiser mandar os gajos de patins, manda. Só o Supremo pode em qualquer instância contrariar o presidente. (Algo que seria um precedente político horrível e que duvido que alguma vez aconteça).
Um corpo legislativo ser capaz de manter a governação unilateralmente seria claramente uma violação do princípio da separação de poderes.
@TLDR, I wouldn't be so sure about Costa's supposedly ruined future. António Guterres, the UN's general secretary was also once upon a time Portuguese Prime Minister. Just like Costa, he also quit his office due to internal turbulence. Guterres left the country pretty much bankrupt. Look at him today! The same thing can be said about Durão Barroso, yet another Portuguese PM that quit his job when the boat was about to sink just to take his job as the EU Commission president.
This is a sad truth of the corupt EU und UN
Eh, different circumstances. Guterres' issues were purely political, not potentially criminal, and he did make is way through lower (though important) bodies like UNHCR. And Durão was still PM - boat may have been sinking, but it hadn't sunk.
"Guterres left the country pretty much bankrupt."
What kind of drugs are you doing? Yes, Portugal economy wasn't all that well, but pretty much the entire freaking world in 2001 wasn't and no, Portugal wasn't "bankrupt" in 2001. In fact, of all former PMs, Guterres actually is probably the least controversial one and gathers way more a consensus than other previous PMs, even before being elected for any of his positions at the UN.
@@jda.276 I do not agree. He became famous for not being able to manage the economy. Sentences like "É fazer as contas" made him famous like a meme before the age of the memes. Plus he quit because he felt that he was leaving the country in a swamp - his exact words. You want to know which drugs I take? Certainly not yours since you say that he gathered moat consensus than any other PM. You clearly don't remember Cavaco Silva, consensus in person. And I'm not even right-wing.
@@TugaAvenger Guterres deixou o país falido, tal como José Sócrates, agora António Costa, são 50 anos que os mesmos roubam Portugal entre PS e PSD, um bando de corruptos, ladrões, criminosos, nazis , e Marcelo .pertence à mesma quadrilha de bandidos terroristas governam Portugal. Uma vergonha o estado de Portugal na miséria ... 🤮🤡😡 bandidos
Dear TLDR: You may know how Spanish or French phonetics work well enougu
But if you stumble into phonetics you're not familiar with, please, just read the world in the literal word to word phonetics, don't shove foreign phonetics into it just because our neighbouring Spanish and French brothers do it and you think you might just hit jackpot with it. The problem, like with gambling, is if you don't hit jackpot, it's really awful
I cannot fathom how most channels still cannot see that they can just put a given word or name into Google Translate, and it will tell them how to pronounce it in a given language or, for more complicated own names, Wikipedia does the same.
Give him a break, we have the weirdest sounding phonetics out of at least all romance languages. It's good enough!
@@dinissampaio-pires honestly I disagree. I know no one expects them to speak foreign languages percfecly but, in this case, they butchered terribly. Lana Del Rey said the nasal ã sound in São Paulo way better than they did in João. And she is a pop singer not a reporter making a piece on international news.
@@filipeeeeeeeee5615 I could forgive the ã, it was the "Rebeyo de Sooza" that was making me cringe, as if the L read like the spanish LL
I don't mind the ã, it's hard to pronounce for foreigners. But "Marceyo Rebeyo de Susa" was bad, and it's not hard to pronounce either. Mar-sell-oo Re-bell-oo de Soh-sa. It also triggered me a bit every time he said "Rebelo de Sousa" instead of the full name or just Marcelo, I don't think I've ever heard someone call him Rebelo de Sousa.
The last time TLDR News reported on Portugal, one of the main pundits in international matters, Nuno Rogeiro, praised the video stating that it present a good summary of the situation for an international crowd. I wonder if we will see this video mentioned too.
That seems like quite the endorsement!
@@heinzaballoo3278 Doesn't really matter if it is or not, but it's certainly interesting to see the channel being mentioned in national TV.
Well, I wouldn't trust his judgement then. Please see my previous comment, this video is full of crap
The videos are really well made until the moment they try to pronounce a Portuguese word
@@bcotrim12 honestly, if that is the only thing that fails them, then they are excelent at what they do.
IMO both videos I've seen from TLDR on Portugal so far (this one and the Galamba laptop debacle) have been completely on point.
The mention of Costa's party assuring a majority because of his good policies shows a lack of research. It was assured at the time from voters from other parties like BE and PCP out of fear that Chega would rise in popularity after a State Budget was rejected by everyone except PS. There's a lot more context, especially because his "good policies" keep creating a housing and health department crisis for which the portuguese pay with a reduction of quality of life. And i say this but unfortunately there is no better solution because our right wing parties have even weaker policies and are purely populist that try to persuade the people through targeting minor issues
There's still an alternative. Even if once, Chega deserves a chance. People should stop fearing the right wing
@@anticorrupcao5631 não é a direita propriamente que mete medo, mas o chega em si.
@@pinguimbrav8728 e porque mete medo?
Deviamos dar uma chance o chega, e a uma total revisão de todos os partidos politicos e membros estes casos de corrupção têm de parar, e entre ps e psd prefiro chega, doque socialistas de champanhe
@@anticorrupcao5631chega is crazy tho.
The only miracle Antonio Costa made was the miracle to have stayed PM for 8 years
and not resign after 10 scandals
@@hmpbs6679 and counting...
@@luiscosta4945 the whole party should have been dissolved when their last PM went to jail… guess the right wing won’t even create a motion to have it dissolved this time either…
Guys... you need to learn how to pronunciate portuguese names. Each time you attempted to say Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, I would crack up...
Give them a discount (give them a break), it is not that bad to make an issue out of it, we all understand the news he is reporting.
Also, it is a good laugh
Just so you’re aware, “Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa” is pronounced in that same manner, even when using English phonetics, you don’t pronounce the “L’s” as “Y’s” e.g. not “Marseyo” but “Marselo”. Same goes for our “J’s”, “José” is pronounced “José” not “Hosé”. Love your work btw, top notch and well produced easy to digest content as always 👍🏻
This is something I don't understand: they pronounced João (tilde not withstanding) almost correctly but José becomes Hosé. And Susa? Just try to pronounce Sousa as in soul, will get most of it right, don't eat the O between S and U.
@@MegaGasekHe is mixing up Portuguese with French and Spanish.
Quick Update: PS wants to appoint a new prime minister so they can still have a majority, but Marcelo wants to dissolve the parliament and call elections.
Good, people have to vote.
@@marneus If it ends in a geringonca, then it is no longer the people voting, but a coup d'etat.
Yeah I think that all of the other parties don’t have the best leaders for the elections
Marcelo was from PSD and he definitely would like PS to roast slowly as new info about the scandal comes out
The President has not announced what he wishes to do.
Marcelo had said previously he would dissolve the Parliament if Costa was no longer the prime minister, so there is hope
When Costa decided to keep Galamba instead of dismissing like eveyone was saying the President said that "(...) now your fate is tied with his"
wait @ 5:38 why read bomba atomica as if it were french?
Not that Galamba would have mattered, when Costa is being investigated himself.
Their pronunciation of non English words has never been good
@@diegoyuiop Bri'ish moment 😏
I was very confused with that too. I can excuse Castilianizing it a little, but French now? How and why? Doesn't make sense. Even the way they are pronouncing Sousa it's French-like. As if saying Sous-chef or something.
@@NeoZetacause they know the portuguese moto of not being spain, so they opted by the other romance language 😂
Hello! You do a great job in this channel. But just one correction in this video: although lithium explorations are in the north of the country (montalegre and boticas), the hydrogen projects are in Sines, in the southwest of the country.
Thank you for reporting on our country! The miracle everyone mentions internationally has not been felt here, as of 2023 half of the workforce earns less than 1000eur per month, by international standars that’s less than 12,000€ per year!!!
I love my country but our job market is the worst thing I have ever experienced.
The miracle they might be referring to may be living here on foreign money.
I came back to Portugal after the pandemic to be closer to family, it was a shock applying for jobs that do not disclose what the pay is, only to find out after a couple interviews that the “competitive” offer is 850€ 😅
I do not advise any portuguese citizen living abroad to move back unless you have a family emergency. It’s sad to see that this country is going nowhere and has very little to offer to their citizens.
Unless you are one of the foreigners that have been gifted 20% tax rate for 10 years!
The locals are getting shafted...
I was surprised, though, to find out that in Portugal each person is given 14 salaries per year! I haven't heard that about any other country. So, actually, it would be at least 14,000 € per year. Most people don't take that into account when they make comparisons.
In my country monthly salary is a bit better, but if you add 2 extra salaries people make in Portugal, you realize that the Portuguese earn quite a bit more than where I live 😮
@@JaceVibeI think you are a bit more optimistic about that than is accurate... The truth is that while some countries divide their yearly salaries by 12 months, Portugal divides it by 14, so you can feel like you get a bit more when you would theoretically need it more, namely in the holiday months (June & December). So technically you could be dividing a €12k salary by 14... and that's because a lot of people also don't make more than the minimum salary of 600-800!
You're missing the part where he was appointed prime minister with almost half the population not actually going to the poll to vote
The ones that count are the ones that vote.
@@silcodonStill, the results, of Socialism, fallacy, majority, don't show the Portuguese will but lack of good alternatives and hope,that's why people don't bother to vote,as most are Corrupts!
and the first he became prime minister without winning the election
@@Mar-cb3ke lack of alternative??? the country have more than 6 parties in the parlament.
@@Luzitanium lack of *good* alternatives
60% of Portuguese didn't vote, so he had a majority of the 40% that voted
if you don't vote you can't complain afterwards, you literally gave up your say
@@anibalsilva4997 I voted, just wasn't for him.
The rest went to the beach ⛱️
He didn’t even have a majority of votes, he had like 40+% of the popular vote overall and, due to details related to electoral circles, that was enough to get more than 50% of Parliament seats
Ranks as one of the best performing economies in Europe? I have no idea what you mean. Last years were of awful growth, comparatively.
I know right we are poorer nowadays then we were in the 90s, a thriving tourism economy doesnt make us richer or better off... it is an industry based on low wages like most of service economy... there cannot be true growth when our economy is based on services... but this is a dead horse sort to speak
Yeah, the economy is so good that my rent is now double yet me salary is the exact same it was 5 years ago
The problem with Portugal's living standard is the following:
If your salary is 2000 € gross (salário bruto) for example your employer pays actually 2530 €. Meaning that the actual tax on what the employer pays is 49% (you get 1289€). When buying groceries, gas / buying or selling a car, a house or anything for that matter there is huge tax. What this means is that all the money produced by an individual ends up being funeled to the government. And because almost every major sector seems to be colapsing at the moment (health, education, etc) maybe means that the money isn't really being used wisely.
the actual tax rate for 2000€ salary is not 49%. The retention is actually 20.25%, and you have the social security rate at 11%, for an effective 31,25%, and then you get back some of it generally in tax season. This post is completely ignorant of how taxes work. No notes on the government being fucking dumb tho, there's no question about it
Yeah the salary is 800 net
Wait, what?? You pay tax for buying and selling things even after you pay an income tax?? Can you please tell more on that?
@@babakgasimzade4176 If you buy a house you pay taxes and fees. When you sell the house again you have to pay taxes if you make a profit. When you buy a car you have to pay 2 taxes, 23% VAT and "Automotive Tax". On the price of the car the "Automotive Tax" is applied, then after that tax is applied the VAT is applied on top of the price of the car plus the "Automotive Tax". Even the EU already said it's illegal but they still do it. A police officer with 25 years on the force makes less then 1500€. A teacher with also 30 years teaching makes about 1500€ to 1800€. Those are horrible salaries compared to Spain, France, Germany and so on, because those are countries that our politicians like to use as reference to all that is good in Europe. The average worker is poor, the so called middle class has almost disappeared (salaries from 1000 to 2000) because they are the ones that pay the highest taxes. A couple with those salaries can't even afford rent or the mortgage payments on the house they bought, because everything is expensive. As soon the tourists stop again the country will fall even more, Portugal is not for the Portuguese anymore, it's for tourists and for non Portuguese that retire to Portugal.
The video outlines quite well some of the recent developments, however the finishing part I can't honestly agree with. Of course it was due to Costa's manoeuvres that Portugal inverted the stagnant growth and declining living standards, the question is, at what cost? People in Portugal are living poorly and never seen before, we were on the very tail end of the economic growth table in EU post C19, getting overlapped by most Eastern Europe countries which tend to be the poorest historically speaking. So there was no miracle, it was Portuguese people exploitation, that's what it was, and that's why the fiscal charge is as high as it has ever been in the history of democratic Portugal.
Costa's party also didn't win the majority because they had a good program, they won because he suggested that left supporters should unite to fight against the right parties uprising and by doing so, Costa betrayed the very same parties he made an alliance with on the previous term.
So much could be said about this sh*tshow that it's almost impressive it took them so long to get out of there. Fortunately I saw this coming in 2019 and decided right there and then to leave the country. I don't want to be ruled by this kind of people and as soon as I could I left my country looking for a more promising future. I do not regret it a single bit so far.
Since when do we inverted the decline of living standards?? we do now have people who are homeless while still having a job... this is a completely novel phenomena.... basically we are becoming third world like, quite fast.
The "Portugal Economic Miracle" and the increase of living standards, must have happened only to foreign investors, tourists, and the elite class, because the overwhelming population is struggling like never before. With many taking the opportunity to leave the country, which is an option the majority can't even afford to do. It's barely impossible to rent or buy property with the average earnings on your own, yet alone with minimum wage, causing a generation of adults, a lot of them reaching middle age, to move back into their parents house, and a new generation of young adults being stuck with their parents, unable to develop and mature like previous generations.
Don't get me wrong, the country has seen worst days, but it is the first time after the dictatorship, when the country is actually doing economically well, but the people are doing worst, without any war conflict or major crisis to justify it, aside from mass corruption.
There is no economic miracle, it's taxing miracle. 😊
Underfertility miracle. Immigration of south americans miracle.
Portugal might have one of the best economies of the EU but the quality of life of the citizens has dimished during Costas´ mandate. There´s a housing crisis, inflation that´s affecting all basic goods, a health department crisis, and there are laws being approved that continuosly try to kill the middle class.
one of the best economies in the EU? 😅
One of the best?
Best economies of the EU? Is that a joke?? The only thing that happened since joining the EU was Portugal losing places in the rankings of the european economies, first Greece, then some of the new joiners and now almost every other EU state already surpassed Portugal.
@@mikatu That didn't happened because Portugal joined the EU, but despite joined the EU. Had Portugal not joined and the state of the country would be way way worse.
“One of the best” 💀💀💀 that 800 euro a month hitting hard ey?
Portugal's economy does not rank among the best performing in Europe and Costa was not responsible for Portugal "breaking free" of the financial crisis. He just took credit for what the previous government did
THIS!!!
Portugal Caralho!!! Oh, wait...
LOL
Hoje em dia, o mote é mais «Caralho, Portugal...»Eu juro que não entendo como é que um país que lutou tanto para ter a sua independência e soberania se deixou afundar desta maneira, o espírito lusitano perdeu-se completamente; no passado, por muito menos, o povo reclamava, hoje em dia é o que vemos e ninguém faz nada...Que Vergonha
The situation is much worse than it seems. Tonight, after the council of state, Marcelo will adress the nation regarding what will happen next. The most likely solution is that he'll dissolve the parlament because he is taking the necessary steps, according to the Portuguese Constituion, to do so. Yesterday, he has talked with every party on the Assembly and today he will hear the Council of the state. Elections will most likely be in February or early March. The issue with elections is that the opposition isn't very good and that is an understatement. The leader of the main oposition party, PSD (Social-Democratic Party), is everything but charismatic and doesn't transmit any kind of trust. The other parties, CHEGA (right-wing populist) and IL (Liberal Party) aren't keen on forming government with one another. If PSD wants to govern Portugal, they'll have to make a coalition with IL and even with those 2 parties, I don't see them winning majority. Both PSD and IL have said they wouldn't form a government with CHEGA.
Also, Chega will easily double or triple the number of MP. This scandal will help with their anti-corruption rethorics
Today Germany coalition... ;)
ha ha ha what a joke chega supporters are....@@miguelcardoso1903
Fascismo nunca mais. Viva o 25 de abril... ;) @@miguelcardoso1903
A reminder that a precedent has been made by PSD Azores in forming a coalition with CHEGA Azores in the Autonomous Region of the Azores to form government. So, it is likely that this will be a possibility for PSD if they win.
2:47 Did I hear it correctly? "Nascent democracy"? Portugal has been a democracy since 1974-75. How long does it take to stop being "nascent"?
It is called shart beacuse almost all people have lived under the dictatorship or have close relatives that have done it in Portugal
I wonder if he would call spain a nascent democracy too, I doubt it.
technically speaking we are still a young democracy though
The memory of the Estado Novo dictatorship is still very present in Portuguese society.
That is simply not true. A Majority of votes for the PS party you SAY??? 2M Votes are not a majority on any known scale. We are 10M ppl, most of which didn't vote. And We are not afloat, if you consider that our public Debt is still 112% of the PIB in 2022 and one of the Highest in Europe. Taxes are at an all time high and people are struggling to break even. To make the matters worse we are at the tail of the EU when it comes to quality of life, we were just surpassed by Romania. This is a disgrace for any government. There are ppl dying in front of hospitals in ambulances because there are no medical professionals or surgeons to assist, so hospitals and Urgency care are closing on Weekends like they are freaking Convenience stores. Teachers are on Strike because they don't have means, are overworked and under payed. no one wants to be a teacher or Doctor in Portugal for pennies and I don't blame them. I could go on.... In a nutshell we need a deep and urgent change.
a majority of votes yes, that's how abstention works.
Wow, just noticed the little references you're putting in the top right. Not sure if it's something new or if I've just never noticed before, but it's really helpful to be able to look at the sources.
I've noticed them before, they have been there for a while. They are quite useful
Just to add that this crisis hit at a terrible time because it happened on top of unresolving deadlick between the doctors unions and the governoment that seems to risk a colapse of the national Healthcare service!
What is a deadlick freak?
@@Mark-dk4fedeadlock
And the teachers strikes also
Risk a collapse? It's been on life support for at least 20 years.
the SNS in Portugal is where the NHS will be in 5 years, and it's not a nice place.
I'm Portuguese, live in Portugal, but I don't watch tv or any Portuguese social media so it's the first time I'm hearing about any of this. 😆
Well that explains why the Portuguese are getting f... up. The lack of interest over the internal policies is a cultural problem
Well that explains why the Portuguese are getting f... up. The lack of interest over the internal policies is a cultural problem
Saying that Costa’s policies were good and that he had “good hands” and as a recognition of this we the Portuguese people gave a majority, shows poor research and knowledge of the Portuguese political landscape and it’s offensive to those of us Portuguese who have two brain cells to rub together… Costa hasn’t been popular for a long time, his policies have created and exacerbated huge crisis in our healthcare, education, housing and taxation systems. The choice we had as Portuguese at the time was to choose the lesser evil, which as you can see less than two years later it still blew in our faces with all the corruption… so please do not elevate the man nor his party they have demonstrated to be corrupt and incompetent. You need to do better research in the future.
The biggest issue is that their former PM also was arrested for corruption and nothing happened to PS....
One of the best performing economy? PAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA
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Bomba atómica: Exist
TLDR: Bom ba atomíc
Why he went for the French pronunciation ("atomique") but only for the last word 😂
make Portugal great again
Hearing him say "Rubeio Dissussa" instead of "Rebelo de Sousa" is funny to me.
😂😂😂
Bomba atomique sent me 😂
Marceio ribeio dessuss huh
The economy in Portugal is really not healthy.
By the way in less than 10 years Portugal had 1 Pm who went to jail for corruption (Jose Socrates) and now Antonio Costa going down the same ally they were both from same political party
Ehh tbh we were 10 times better with Antonio Costa than any other in the last 2 decades regardless if he did any corruption or not most politicians do but the country got much better him even though the average Portuguese can ever admit it.
@@ricardomadleno564 Portugal got much better in exacly what? Maybe in corruption?, more homeless people? Increase inflation? Higher taxes in Europe besides having the lowest salary? House renting? I dont wanna think if the country havent had 10 x better then before. Only someone with lack of brain cell's would tell that the country is getting better after one single party having 2 primer ministers jailed for corruption and 4 bankrupcys in the country 🤣
Actually, he wasn't judged yet, he went to jail for "risk of escape". The investigation and judge's actions were flawed and they might actually allowed him to walk free. The worst part is that those actions might be enough for him to sue the justice system and make the country pay. They were so keen on making a scandal out of it that a criminal (I believe he is) is going to walk free.
J'aime la "Bomb Atomique".
X_X
But seriously, he wasn't responsible for our economy improving, he just happened to be in power when the previous government's policies began to bear fruit. His first term was "below average" (to put it nicely), and last election's results had more to do with everybody else seeming worse.
Yup, ur average modern voter doesn't seem to realize policies take time for its effects to be seen.
And yes, our "miracle" post 08 was absolutely PSD doing. They were unfriendly but productive.
In country with 10 million inhabitants, 700 thousand work for the state administration, most of them vote left, are members of the party, bought by salary raises, 35 hour work week, private healthcare, etc, entagled in a buroucratic nightmare just to have a job and will vote left for sure, the socialist party controls almost everything. The Police that did the investigation was the one that is not under militay comand. Open borders policy resulted in a caos and woke mentality is the rule, hospitals are full, house prices skyrockted and the solution was major tax raises. Our future is dark
Disseste tudo, a realidade é que portugal ja esta perdido talvez ha 10 anos sem possibilidade de retorno. Um país completamente podre ate ao tutano e as coisas so ainda vao ficar piores ate implodir. Todos os políticos destes país sao farinha do mesmo saco
Also ,teachers in public schools keep protesting week yes week yes because they have either :
A - The Lowest salaries ever
B - keep get trown around from region to region without a stable life in the process
C- Frozen Salaries, meaning no matter how good they are or work, no raises in the near future
D - A lot of public schools with poor conditions
E - Due to the low low salary and trown around like portatoes from around the country, some had actually to live and teach from a goddamn van
On Medical aspect, SnS (our national service) is:
A - got worse and worse cause for some fucking bright ideia, wanted to implant an american system with only private hospitals and paid high health insurances
B - hospitals keep closing maternity wards ( yeah you cant have a baby delivered in many hospitals and clinics) and many other specialities are literally closed because of the poor equipement, over worked staff or low to non existent staff in some other cases
C - many medical students and already existing nurses and doctors dont even think now to stay or continue in Portugal and instantly think to emigrate
D - Solution of him? Hire foreigners so we can pay them even less, some with way lower qualifications and experience, and support the growing privatization of the medical area and consequent destruction of the well entioned and previously good SNS...
But hey, those are only two of the many many many problems he didnt resolve and helped create. I guess we have Sun at least 😊🤗
I moved away from my home country seven years ago because there were no job opportunities for me and most of my friends. I often think about returning, but with the current situation, it doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon.
Look, Costa didn’t win a absolute majority because of good policies. He won because he was able to scare the people with the possibility of the government having a minority led social democratic party (PSD) supported by a right wind party (Chega). All of his campaign was based on that, and it worked. PSD grew in the number of votes, but so did PS (this one at the cost of the votes from the left. We call it a “useful vote”).
Anyone with a decent number of brain cells and not blinded by political party “fandom” could see that AC was riding on a sea of scandals. Sooner or later, something like this would have happened.
No. The Portuguese did NOT rewarded Costa. They were scared my him. Dear TLDR. You’re usually great, but that last part of the video?… should have done more research.
I voted PSD...
But I had ENOUGH, just hope Chega fucks things around on the elites...
Chega is a extreme right wind party though.
@@RandomStuffPT CHEGA is actually an elitist party, but sure, I mean the only female deputy has never actually worked in her life and is only there through nepotism. Oh, and please look up each deputy from CHEGA you might find some interesting information about their problems with justice. If one commits a crime without having power imagine once they reach the level of power of a government.
Great video. Pls don't call him just "Rebelo de Sousa" again. It sounds wrong when we say it. It sounds worse when you say it. Either call him his full name Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa or just call him Marcelo. Or reference him as the president.
Nos outros países, as pessoas referem-se aos políticos pelos últimos nomes, por estarem numa posição de respeito. Nós como não queremos saber, tratamos o Marcelo como se fosse amigo de infância.
Better yet, call him parot, in portuguese papagaio, which is his nickname in Portugal.
@@DiogoMartins13 no meu país (Itália) não é só questão de respeito. Geralmente todos os que não são teus amigos são chamados pelo sobrenome. Não é isto o caso no Portugal?
That's a very ignorant comment. Calling him "Rebelo de Sousa" is common even in Portugal.
@@diegoyuiop Eu penso que não. Normalmente ou dizemos o nome próprio, ou o título (professor, diretor, etc).
Portugal's economic miracle was dropping places in the FMI ranking and achieving the lowest private business gross output of all time when compared to the EU average.
For context on the wider situation, Portugal’s President has called new elections for February, and investigators have found 75.000€ in cash hidden within books and bottles of wine in the office of the PM’s chief of staff, within the PM’s official residence itself.
For a wider context, Costa’s government has seen the resignations of 14 Ministers and Secretaries of State in the las 2 years, over various corruption scandals, agents of the Immigration Agency beating a Ucranian man to Death, and the Minister of Finance’s car driving over and killing a worker performing maintenance work while overspending in the Highway….
plus letting the thousands of criminal immigrants and mafias get in PT easily to proceed with the same crimes that they commit in their countries
The election will be on 10 March and now the Governor of the Portugal Central Bank is embroiled in the crisis too because he was allegedly invited to be caretaker PM, as if he were a member of Costa's Socialist Party.
Im portuguese, and I am here to tell you that the portuguese average QI is not that high for elections. The same party is going to win again, and again, the same party that ruled since the dictatorship went down (they just didnt rule for 8 years)... but the average portguese says the same every 4 years: "this time is the time its going to work" guess what it doesnt... Portugal is getting passed by countries tha left the URSS some decades ago...And in my opinion I want the same political party to win.. if the portuguese dont learn by good, they will learn the bad way..
Somos insanos, votamos sempre no mesmo e esperamos resultados diferentes.
Mas o pior é que existe muita gente que vota no PS ou PSD por clubismo e não porque acredita que será o melhor para governar.
@@sandroribeiro7644 Sim, podemos falar em clubismo, divisão ou polarização. Tanto na população como no governo. Um dos problemas mais graves na cultura governamental e politica de Portugal é a dificuldade dos partidos trabalharem em conjunto. Há falta de cultura politica, e a qualidade de discurso da comunicação social, e dos próprios politicos é muito pobre. Estou para assistir a discuções e critica construtiva entre politicos opostos. As discussões, argumentos e insultos dos nossos (doutores) políticos é muito infantil. E sim, são os Portugueses que os escolhem, já foi dito, os lideres do pais são um reflexo da sua população.
portuguese people look at political parties as football clubs that's why PS keeps getting re-elected after all the scandals
Solid business idea: send Portuguese folks to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to work in oil
Nice video except the end talking about an Economic miracle thanks to Costa.
First, there is no economic miracle at all, even Romania as now more GDP/capita than Portugal that is close to be the lowest.
Regarding the debt crisis, The Troika intervention implemented the economic reforms to solve the debt issue and the ECB helped further by lowering interest rates. In 8 years, the few things Costa reformed or gahave done went to actually worse. He changed the public sector week hours to 35, augmenting the cost of the state, specially in the healthcare side. He changed the law of the public sector healthcare and stop the private partnership that managed the 3 best public hospitals in Portugal. Now, the health sector is in high crisis mode with lots of strikes and even those hospitals that were the bests now have some departments closed at some points.
Education is also in chaos also as the imigration side of police/adminstration since he chose to extinguish the SEF to create something else stupid.
TAP airline is a all disaster as you talked about, and it is importat to say that previous government managed to put in 100% in private hands but Costa reverted this at the beging of is mandate to 100% public, put in there more than 3B€ and now wanted to sell it to private again (not for more than 1B€) Same for Efacec.
He promised fair home prices and the price have skyrocketed
Fiscal burden is very high on portuguese too and keeps growing.
And basically he did not make more than that, the only thing correct is that he had the care to try to lower deficit overall
Baby, wake up, new Portuguese political scandal just dropped.
Hey ya, could you guys do like an overview of which countries are having a political crisis? It seems like a new one each week. Are there underlying trends? Which countries are more or less likely to have a crisis and why?
well, in the case of Portugal, we've been having political crisis since forever, so for us is not a new trend, it's how life has been going since ever
Even when portugal was a monarchy it had political crisis. It's part of the country like fado by now 😂
I'm pretty interested in hearing about which countries are ending their political crises, and how
@@flygawnebardoflight iceland was a great example post 08 crisis and they took one of the 1st punches. And iceland is doing better than most and they do have a huge bills of infrastructure and they do need to import a lot of foodstuff. But no one is talking about iceland and the measures they adopted, or the people who went to jail in the process.
In Europe in all southern european countries. Why? Because they seem to want to reduce the fertility rate there, to make it less than in northern Europe. Which makes little sense considering how many millions of african and asian people immigrate to northern Europe yearly. The only country apparently never has a crisis seems to be Israel. Please do not get me wrong, I have nothing against israeli people of course. Only against politicians.
We'll see what the future holds in this case, but the international community needs to get a glimpse of the absurd level of corruption and nepotism that goes on in Portuguese politics.
When it comes to corruption, we have nothing on Russia. I guess this says it all.
Cause portugal is a smaller country and a smaller economy and the corrupted don't use same violent methods, and they aren't in international monopoly games - it isn't even comparable!
Portugal suffers the same it always did: the rulling class has a vision of wealth and not production of said wealth.
Portuguese here.
It is sad for me to hear these news about Portugal in TLDR...
... But, as usual, you make a great job in explaining the essential in a short and easy to understand format.
Well done.
truly and definitely a Portugal moment
If Portugal is an economic miracle, then what are Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, China, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar?
This doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who cares about politics in Portugal.
Since the beginning of his journey in the Costa parliament he has been involved in scandal after scandal (example: defendant in "casa pia" case, among others). Costa left the country's finances in a real SWAMP (namely TAP (more than 3% of GDP was lost there), in energy business / energy transition which magically all come under suspicion of corruption, railways, airports etc.). The miracle of Costa: to take into context, at the time of the troika the Portuguese had a tax burden of 31-32% and now it is around 37%, in the first Costa surplus public investment was lower than at the time of the trioka of " Passos Coelho", less investment more taxes...
And thank's god that the state budget could be stopped with all this, it was just even more tax burden.
The next government will have a lot to do.
Just my opinion.
Im just an average Portuguese citizen
Thank you for helping me understand what is going on in Portugal using English language. As yet my Portuguese language ability misses certain details and so this is very helpful.
We're not too far from Romanians
You guys never do Portuguese politics quite right. Good policies acording to whom?
Meanwhile in Spain Sanchez would sell his mother twice over to cling 2 days more into power. If he hadn't already sold her.
He’s better than Feijóo and Abascal tho. We would be worse if we chose the two nincompoops (Vox y PP).
@@michaeldaveapo7207 I guess you get rides in the presidential plane. BTW; the left just tried to murder a conservative politician today. I guess you liked that too.
Im ashamed of my country, ashemed of who voted for this administration, ashamed of this adminstration that only after 13 years does another big corruption scandal in this small nation.
isn't Portugal the same country that even legalized hardcore drugs like cocaine?!
I mean, holy shit. that's crazy.
Still, I bet my life savings you won't vote Chega. You'll vote for the big two nonetheless. Third time is the charm?
@@LevisH21 Btw, today the police found hashish in Galamba's house.
@@LevisH21it didn't legalize it, it just removed penalty for users (but nor traffickers). It makes somewhat sense, addiction is a desease and should be dealt with by health institutions not criminal ones - that's the theory at least.
@@nbgoodiscore1303 As u may know the vote is secret but I will still answer you by saying that there is no political party in Portugal fit to rule, nor PS nor PSD nor Chega, I wont vote chega because they aren't a party made for governing they are a party made for the opposition, a nice example of this is açores, so I will explore options on the smaller parties without representation like must people should do.
There is not a single Portuguese that didn't burst out laughing at the final minute of the video
me and my wife can’t help but chuckle at the phonetics of “Marceyo rebeio deh sohsa”. Keep up the good work!
Good work?
He gaslighted the entire crisis we are having...
I can tell as a Romanian that this crisis will be interesting
Portuguese economic miracle, but the country is about to be surpassed by Romania and 20% of its people live abroad...
I have huge respect for someone with power giving it up when their integrity is questioned.
Also good that Portugal is doing corruption investigations that are actually rendering results!
Hopefully, a less corrupt Portugal can rise from the chaos, and from what little I've seen so far, it looks like it's moving in the right direction!
The Prosecutors office is not an innocent agent here, they often Fail to convict, everything about this is off, way off, this has never happened before and Although Galamba is 1000% corrupt(to the point I believe he is a Psycopath, because it looks like he just cant help it and is deliberately like this), for the Prime minister there is not even an allegation, just an open investigation. Although his Chief of staff had an 78 thousand euro stash in the office next to his, they revelead today they found that Tuesday during the raid.
What a shame, tired of corruption
As a portugueses person, I would like for you to please stop saying "tapgate" or "galambagate"
I dont know who put the gate on theese Scandal, but its has to stop!!
Also, Costas fall from Grace as sono as he got an absolute majority os the funniest get saddest thing I've ever seen
Wrong mate, there are 3 options at the moment, not just the two you mentioned.
Marcelo can appoint a government from his own initiative.
And I don't know where you took the idea that Portugal improved his economy under costa, it was exactly the opposite. Portugal was recovering from a IMF intervention and under costa the living standards sunk even more, with homeless people growing by the day and is currently in a critical situation.
That guy is a known corrupt, but that is not surprising since he took the power with a coup d'estat 10 years ago.
I was with u until u wrote coup-etat 😂. Dictionary please!
PM Portugal did bring more than two milion brazilian citizens to Portugal in few months... And a large of that number of Brazilian citizens that Portugal PM did bring in some months are already living in Europe ilegals ... And This not stop yet... They still come and come everyday, This its a crime ! The companys in Portugal just recruit brazilians to work .. they refuse to contract Portuguese citizens to work, and Portuguese must leave to get a job... Last month i get a job through a recruiment agency, i did go to work in a store of Sonae group... The manager say the Two brazilians that go to work with me are welcome and i did send me back, the manager say me that it was a mistake, because the manager did think that i was Brazilian... But im not Brazilian.. im Portuguese... Só i canot work at Sonae group company ! Im sorry, i must leave Portugal to get a job... And the brazilians Also come to follow the Portuguese, they come to Portugal they get all the jobs and Next go to Europe to follow the Portuguese and still stolen the jobs to portuguese, first on Portugal, Next in Europe... Two milion of Brazilian enter in Portugal last months, and they still coming everyday, This not stop ?????
Pronounce the "L" in Marcelo as in Rebelo
Portuguese pronounce the L normallly as an L
No eyo lol
Antonio costa improved the quality of living? WHAT? It has NEVER been this bad. Income is one of the lowest in europe, and cost of living one of the highest. What are you on about....middle class is almost gone, this is a land for rich foreign people. That's it.
This political party is absolutely criminal for more than 20 years. There is no way that, in a civilized country, these individuals would never been voted for. As a Portuguese I AM ASHAMED FOR BEEING PORTUGUESE.
Try being American 😢
Reminder: The hole damn contury is going down (Im portuguese). I hope to see a new era of reconstruction for Portugal now that Costa is gone.
This video will be longer than the coverage I've actually bothered watching in our TV...
Our TV is full of propaganda, trying to water this down
@@danielmateus6775 Frankly, it's the opposite - it's going to be the only news for weeks.
A very balanced view of what is happenning for foreign audiances albeit economic miracle might be more of an economic mirage.
i never knew portugal had a economic miracle, the statistic can exist but the people never felt it and i talked to a lot of young portuguese people and their options most of the time is to always leave the coutry.
Imagine a coutry-wide small town village situation where all young people have to move out because they don't see a future inside their little town/village and you have Portugal.
You have the whole world rather.
@@tomorrowneverdies567 nah, you have good places to be in every continent. It is not Germany by stretch of the imagination but it is not bad, the city where i live is one example, it is not São Paulo capital but it is good.
What miracle? Everything is in shambles since he took over. Best performing in Europe but not for portuguese people
Portuguese economy a miracle?!? Are you drunk???
2:52 He did the exact opposite
It turns out it was another Antonio Costa, the economy minister Antonio Costa e Silva. Welcome to The Republic of Banana, Portugal.
Great video, I just think that this type of content being not available in portuguese is a shame. Not the channel's fault, just a thought.
Rebeu de Susa 😭
Mahceyo Rebeyu de Zuza!
He didn't gain majority out of appreciation, but because a lot of ppl were afraid of Chega, a far right political party.
Majority was achieved with only 20% of votes, due to a high abstention rate.
That's it.
Only 20% of portuguese voters actually put him in power.
The other 80% want to get rid of him.
"Economic miracle" and "one of the best economies in Europe" - I don't know where you got that from man, we are lot talking about the same Portugal that I was born and live in.
Rir para não chorar companheiros... rir para não chorar...
Minimum wage is 800€ a month. Congratulations.
The PM's buddy and also the former PM that got us into the bailout in 2011 also spent some "indoors forced vacation". Coincidence or pattern?
For the porruguese voter it seems to be pure coincidence 😂
@@puraLusa Unfortunately 🤣
Well, unfortunately, that pattern could be seen in other parties if only the justice system wasn't so partial. But hey at least one party out of 8 in the assembly is being investigated.
He rode the wave of 2020 global economic growth, even though any of his measures weren't aimed at it at all, still he is acclaimed to be the head of such improvement in wellfare. He had time and a lot of money to start a proper change into a more resilient economy, decided not to do anything meaningful.
True. The wave is over and the tide is starting to pull the economy into even deeper depths than before…
Didn't watch the video? "decided not to do anything meaningful" ??? Portugal has the best ecomic growth right now in Europe.
@@portugalgamermanel3404that’s just because the slump into 2020 was so great, coming back from it is not a miracle, it’s a return to normalcy, Portugal is not in any stretch of the imagination becoming a wealthy country
They dont know how, they only know how to spend resources from the EU in all kinds of projects in the hopes it will fix the economy.... after decades and decades, you would think they knew better....
@@portugalgamermanel3404 Well the video is wrong... unless you think an economy based on low wage services is better then the rest economies in Europe.... We Portuguese are actually poorer today then we were way back in the 80s and 90s... food for thought.
It's really surprising to me to see consequences for stuff. In Greece our politicians are involved in major scandals but noone ever resigns
In Portugal is isually the same.
He isn't involved in anything, they threw António Costa under the bus. He resigned because that's the right thing to do when you are under that situation not because he wanted to
Same in the US, we have embezzling congressman, and congressman who worked to overthrow legitimate government and they are still in power. It is refreshing to see th more sober democracy in Portugal
- NHS on crisis;
- Mass uncontrolled immigration;
- Teachers on strike for months;
- Tens of thousands of students not having classes because a lot of teachers are retiring and not a single soul wants to become a teacher (no joke, it's on the news every other day);
- Only airline of the country (TAP) has been on the brink of bankruptcy for years;
- Housing crisis - prices soaring and the average Portuguese NPC can't afford rent/mortgage;
- Absurd fuel prices (1,7xx € - 1,9xx €);
- Increase in taxes;
- Inflation doesn't stop, even though the EU's inflation has been decreasing.
Lmao this was just the final excuse for him to leave, who even wants to run this shithole to begin with
Idealist politicians realise that reality is more complex, complicated, chaotic and contradictory than their utopian dreams.
This has been the case time and time again but people prefer to hear easy and populist solutions to complex problems rather than having a benefit-tradeoff mindset to more unpopular decisions that would benefit the population in the long term.
U just discredit the challenge of universal vote perfectly.