Quit chasing votes and face the facts of rescue, EU tells Portugal (AFP)

Brussels (AFP) - Portuguese politicians must leave the electioneering and suitable for radical changes in the economy of the country in exchange for an international rescue plan, best figures EU said Wednesday.

Negotiations underway in Lisbon on the rescue of the debt, head of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso said he hoped that the leaders of the party "will assume their responsibilities" to public finances and their partners in the European Union.

Portugal goes to early polls on June 5, after the Government fell month last dismissed Parliament when its last austerity plan, forcing Lisbon to bow to the pressure of the market and to seek a bailout EU and IMF.

Prime Minister Jean-Claude Luxembourg, Juncker, who is chairing the Eurgroup of the Finance Ministers of 17 countries that share the euro, warned the rival parties to focus on what must be done to win the approval of the EU and the Monetary Fund International.

"The national honour of the Portugal... should push the main Portuguese parties to turn their attention away from the election campaign and the return to the requirements national and European,"he told Luxembourg."."

Talks on the debt rescue plan are supposed to agree on a programme of mid-May for political parties to agree tough austerity measures on until polls are held.

Campaign is likely to test the commitment of the parties to the rescue terms that the new Government will have to implement.

Notably, Barroso warned that "it is not possible to provide loans of transition," as requested by the Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva and a number of personalities from domestic opposition seeking flexibility of Brussels.

A former Portuguese Minister, Barroso stressed the fact that EU aid and the IMF, expected to total 80 billion euros (116 billion dollars), "must be a program in the medium term with strict conditions."

Calls for a transition loan were worried by crossing the Government in Lisbon on June 15, when he must repay some EUR 5 billion.

"We will do everything to ensure that this program is wrapped so that payment of the first responds to the needs of the Portugal funding," said Barroso.

However, he kept it no scope for financing arrangements to short-term rescue financing agreements is agreed between the European partners - which he insisted were fully guaranteed by the Government of Lisbon.

The European Union and the IMF has warned that Lisbon will have to implement the public spending cuts, tax rises and the privatization of deep to secure its bailout.

Experts are currently a student more books in the country to Lisbon, Portugal battles a debt crisis that has already seen the Greece and Ireland to the rescue by the EU and IMF is on the costs of nearly $ 200 billion euros.

With the cry of the EU assistance to the Portugal as a painful humiliation, outgoing first Minister Jose Socrates' initiated discussions with the representatives of the main parties policies countries in Parliament to discuss the debt rescue plan.

European Commissioner Olli Rehn finance has already shows signs of losing patience with the domestic political propaganda.

"Let's does not have a public every day dialogue - we will focus on the work of preparation of the program," Rehn said after that the Ministers of finance European weekend loaded experts to negotiate a "cross-party".

Most analysts believe that Lisbon must be the EU and the IMF loans rescue have agreed before the date of redemption debt 15 June key if it is to avoid default.

Prime Minister Socrates had attempted to obtain the package fourth of his minority Government austerity measures a year by the Parliament in a context of mounting public concern.

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