Pedro Soares dos Santos, in an interview with “Portugal Agante”, considers that Portugal “could be the California of Europe” but instead, and taking into account the potential stigma against big companies, he wonders whether some political forces do not want to be Portugal is the “Cuba of Europe”.
In an interview with the “Portugal Aganti” program, Pedro Soares dos Santos, president of Jeronimo Martinez, owner of Bingo Doce, criticized what he considered the lack of vision on the part of the country’s politicians for twenty years, at a time when proposals to the country are increasing within the framework of the electoral campaign for the scheduled legislative elections. On March 10th.
“I don't think there is anyone. And just watching some political discussions and some programs and you can see that no one is worried about the future. They are worried about the next elections. This is disastrous for all of us,” Pedro Soares dos Santos noted.
For leader Jerónimo Martins, the disappointment regarding Portugal's current political leadership class is “very great.” No one is thinking about how to place Portugal in an EU that we all know will grow even bigger, and no one wants to know what role we want to play economically in the current EU and in the future.
Pedro Soares dos Santos believes that in the discussions no one talked about Portugal in the European Union and that Portugal was only talked about for the sake of financing: “But to have money, you must have projects. To have projects you must have ideas. “Ideas, you have to have people who are very good at driving. This gap currently exists in Portugal and it is very serious. It is not in vain that young people are leaving Portugal. It is because they do not feel this exists. I am very sorry because Portugal is a wonderful country. It could be the California of Europe.” .
Regarding the stigma that may exist regarding large companies and large groups in Portugal, Pedro Soares dos Santos believes that “everything has to change” because “when wealth is not created, it is not shared.”
“When wealth is not created, nothing is shared at all. Today we are faced with a discourse against wealth creation. I do not understand if these people want us to become the Cuba of Europe,” highlights this businessman.
The leader of the group that owns Pingo Doce considers that, “At the moment we are only talking about taxes, but taxes must be imposed on the wealth that is produced. It is not because of what people have that I cannot understand what these people mean by taking away the wealth that others produce and share from others. This is Portugal's problem. Nobody likes. We now have a letter from a class who doesn't like the work. He has lived his whole life on state budgets and thinks only about distributing alms. Don't think about how to create this wealth. This worries me a lot.”
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