Mariana Leitão, leader of the Iniciativa Liberal (IL) party, closed the party's parliamentary sessions with a strongly critical speech regarding Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and the Executive. The liberal leader attacked what she called Montenegro's "wonderland," referring to the discrepancy between government rhetoric and reality.
In her speech, Mariana Leitão pointed to the State and the Government as preferential targets of her opposition. The IL leader stated that the promised "State reform" does not exist, questioning the Executive's ability to implement structural changes in the public administration.
The Iniciativa Liberal's parliamentary sessions served as the stage for this political accusation. Leitão's intervention comes in the context of one year of Montenegro's governance, during which IL has been a critical voice of the PSD/CDS-PP/PPM majority.
Mariana Leitão's party has positioned State reform as one of its political flags, advocating for a reduction of the State's weight in the Portuguese economy and society. This intervention marks the continuation of IL's strategy of opposing what it considers to be the Government's reformist immobilism.
