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The socialist Ana Gomes confirmed to Public that she will be a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. The offer will be officially announced on Thursday in Lisbon, the newspaper added.
“I will be a candidate,” Ana Gomes told the newspaper, sending additional communications for the day of the official presentation.
Last Sunday, in her usual television commentary on SIC Notícias, Ana Gomes had said that she was almost finishing her reflection on the subject. “I am at the end of my reflection, in a few days I will be in a position to announce,” Ana Gomes stressed when asked about a presidential candidacy.
“I was making this reflection together with my husband, when he fell ill and passed away. I had to keep doing this reflection under other conditions, alone. What I can say is that I am coming to an end and, soon, I will communicate the result of my reflection, ”he continued.
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Ana Gomes also stressed that this would be a “very individual” decision, regardless of the advice she decides to listen to.
“Obviously, I value a lot of people I’ve been listening to, but ultimately it’s a decision that you have to make alone,” he stressed. And questioned as to whether the candidacy of the blocker Marisa Matias puts hers in doubt, the socialist and former MEP guaranteed that no: “By no means, I think Marisa Matias is an excellent candidate.”
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It was on May 17, also in her comment space on the SIC, that Ana Gomes admitted that she could run for Belém. And she explained why: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa – she said – is a “regime candidate” that will “polarize” society and “make life easier for the extremes.”
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I am not a candidate and I do not have the ambition to be a candidate, but I believe that what has happened is so serious, with so many implications for democracy, that I am very concerned about my party and democracy. And I think that many Portuguese from the center-left, the left, and the democratic right itself are concerned, ”says Ana Gomes.
The socialist referred to the moment in the Auto Europa factory this week that passed when the president of the Government and leader of the PS, António Costa, launched the current president of the Republic for a new election. Ana Gomes describes this episode as “absolutely regrettable.” “It’s really depressing,” she reiterates.
“The relaunch of the candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic has never been seen in a car factory by someone who was not in the role of party leader but in the capacity of Prime Minister and in a context in which the President of the Republic had just been ingested in a highly criticized way in government affairs, “said Ana Gomes.
The leadership of the PS described as “unacceptable” the statements of Ana Gomes about the lack of internal democracy in the party.
The PS leadership considers Ana Gomes’s criticism of the lack of internal democracy “unacceptable”
Público also writes this Monday that, prior to this decision, the diplomat had several meetings in which “he defended the fundamental importance of a presidential election for the political debate, even more so when far-right political projects appear with candidacies for Belém, such as This is the case of Chega, with André Ventura.
Ana Gomes, according to the newspaper, considers “a mistake” that the PS does not have its own candidate and “never wanted a candidacy that would divide the party.”
However, “from the moment [António] Costa and other socialists supported, albeit indirectly, a possible reelection of Marcelo [Rebelo de Sousa]He thought that his leftist voice could be useful for the debate ”.
According to the newspaper, “After revealing that she was considering moving forward, Ana Gomes had various supporters inside and outside the PS, such as that of the also socialist Francisco Assis, that of Ricardo Sá Fernandes, leader of Livre, and professor Nuno Garoupa. , among others”.
Among the voices against this candidacy is that of Carlos César, president of the PS, who said that “only in a limited situation would he vote for Ana Gomes.”
