Ovibeja: Asuncion Ridges critical Minister of Agriculture.
"I do not give more to this public collection", says Asuncion Ridges on the statements of the Minister of Agriculture, on or PDR2020. The centrist lead visited this morning the Ovibeja.
Asuncion Ridges, Chairman of the CDS / PP, We visited on Saturday morning to Ovibeja, the great fair of South agriculture, where accused Capoulas Santos, his successor in the Ministry of Agriculture to be to destroy "a structure that worked like a Swiss watch", indicating as an example the "replacement administration IFAP", concluded.
The former Minister of Agriculture, He said he was "dumbfounded", when he heard Capoulas Santos said that "will bring together a working group to deal with the drought", recalled that existed 2011, an inter-ministerial group ready to go. "The minister came too late", He completed the centrist leader.
On the drought situation that is lived in the Alentejo, Crests rattled off some of the measures should have been taken to mitigate the effects of drought: "Exemption from the rate of water for irrigators, how to support the watering of animals, with the fire department in order to carry water and exempt from contribution to social security, for a period of time ", concluding that they "should already be on the ground", concluded.
On the statements of Capoulas Santos, that when it came to the Ministry, there was no project approved under the PDR2020, Asuncion Ridges, it was corrosive: "... ohhhhhhhh.. about this conversation does not give to this public collection ", recommended to the owner of the folder that "work and put money for farmers", concluding that the time we live in agriculture at government level "is the socialist tradition mistreat agriculture", concluded
During a visit, Assumption Crests crossed with Carlos Coins, European Commissioner, born in Beja who also visited the exhibition and exchanged a long hug and told the family.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)