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Lusa - Business News - Sao Tome: PM dismisses call to resign, in 'no doubt' will serve full term
Sao Tome, Feb. 22 (Lusa) - The prime minister of Sao Tome and Principe, Jorge Bom Jesus, has said that he has not "the slightest doubt" that he will complete his term in office, until the end of the current parliament, less than four months after he took office. "This government has four years, our programme is for four years and at this moment this country is an oasis of peace,” the prime minister said. “We are fighting for political stability. “We let the previous government, the ADI govern for four years to consolidate democracy and, above all, to start creating spaces for development,” he went on. “So this Government will also have four years.” Bom Jesus was responding to a call from Abnildo de Oliveira, parliamentary leader of the opposition ADI, for him to resign. At a news conference on Wednesday, de Oliveira had said that the prime minister should resign or assume his responsibilities as head of government and leader of the governing party, the MLSTP/PSD. "After two and a half months of government, the people are witnessing a mess" and “the country moving towards a scenario of a difficult situation," de Oliveira said. He accused the government of "gross violation of the constitution and laws, mass dismissals, bringing heads of households into question, the fragmentation of society, excessive partisansip in public administration" and said that the best way out for the prime minister was to "resign to not get too much dirtier." On Thursday, the prime minister retorted that he believed "there is much hope deposited in me and I do not want to defraud, I cannot defraud [the voters]: I am doomed to win and to bring a solution to this country.” Bom Jesus was speaking to journalists in Angolares, capital of Caué district, 43 km south of the capital, where he went to hear locals as part of preparations for the 2019 state budget. Bom Jesus took office in December, despite the MLSTP-PSD being the second-largest party in parliament after the October elections. The party had succeeded in blocking the ADI’s own attempt to form a government as the largest party, thanks to negotiations with other, smaller parties the MDFM-PL, PCD-GR and UDD. MYB/ARO // ARO. Lusa Agency : CNA Date : 2019-02-23 11:56:46
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