Brussels, 11/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - The Portuguese president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, expressed on the evening of Wednesday 11 July his support for the ability of the Centre-Right coalition in place to put an end to the political crisis that has destabilised the government over the past ten days, AFP reports. He asked, however, for an agreement between the main political forces of the country in order to organise early elections after the end of the aid plan granted to the country, in June 2014. The current government has all the authority it needs to exercise its function, the president said in a statement to the nation, thus rejecting the holding of early legislative elections in the near future. However, the three parties that had negotiated the €78 billion bailout plan in 2011, namely the Socialists, that were in power at the time, the Social Democrat Party (PSD) under Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, and the small Conservative Party CDS-PP under Paulo Portas should agree on an exact timetable and on continuing reforms according to the Troika's wishes, he stressed. Cavaco Silva said the recent political crisis has showed everyone that the country urgently needs a medium-term agreement between the parties that have signed up to the rescue plan. He called for a government to rescue the people, to avoid the risk of a return to political crisis. All the left-wing opposition and the trade unions argued for early legislative elections. (SP/transl.jl)