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The presidential candidate Ana Gomes described the secretary general and prime minister of the PS, António Costa, as “entirely political, from tiptoe to tiptoe”, in a Great life interview to be published soon in the book. Ana Gomes, life and the world, written by the journalist of the Diário de Notícias João Pedro Henriques, with the stamp of the Palimpsesto publishing house.
The former Socialist leader and MEP regretted that the head of Largo do Rato did not have the “courage to face the case” of the former PS leader and former Prime Minister José Sócrates in another way, adding that he found the accused of Operation Marqués “very pee, very gallant “on first contact.
“António Costa is totally political, tiptoe to tiptoe. He lives for politics, breathes politics and is aware of what the public interest is.. There is also a deepening of the party apparatus, in which it was formed and in which it has always lived and what it needs, because, in fact, there is no politics and power is not exercised without the party apparatus ”, he analyzed.
For the diplomat, the head of government “has tremendous qualities, he is a very skillful negotiator, but sometimes the negotiator gets lost in the delight of negotiation and negotiations are negotiated.”
“I do not see it [a Costa] in no way as a venal subject and I see him wanting to do the right thing for the country and wanting to defend the country, the party and his own good name “, set.
He regrets that Costa did not have “the courage to face the Socrates court case”
Ana Gomes defended that the PS should have approached the controversial process of the Socrates subject in a more assertive way.
“I don’t think it was tolerance, properly speaking. [Costa] he did not have the courage to face the case. That would be good. It would strengthen the party before public opinion, but it would also force it to introduce certain procedures that do not exist today. I don’t like to see a person I don’t know – they tell me he’s very intelligent – Lacerda Machado, doing business for the state, because he’s a friend of the Prime Minister, ”he said.
The former Portuguese ambassador in Jakarta defended that “the PS had to make its self-criticism, assume its responsibilities for having been exploited by an individual who had this promiscuity, this vulnerability.”
First meeting with Socrates: “I found him very curious, very gallant”
“I found him very pissed off, very gallant,” he said of his first meeting with Socrates, by chance at an airport in Rio de Janeiro.
Ana Gomes recognized that, “in electoral campaigns, Socrates was charismatic, he had extraordinary resistance and that resistance was contagious, even under the harshest conditions.”
“Yes, he was said to be rich. I bought this story, he had all the makings of a spoiled child in some way. He was an intelligent, capable and ambitious young man, but spoiled. I had no reason to doubt the story. That the mother was very rich [por herança da riqueza de um avô]”, set.
The Pia Pia scandal that hit the PS figures. “A total shock”
Another controversy the “Casa Pia scandal”, which hit the names of the current president of the Assembly of the Republic, Ferro Rodrigues, and the then PS spokesman, Paulo Pedroso (who left the militancy, but is now the campaign leader of Ana Gomes ), is described by the presidential candidate as “a total shock.”
“I liked Paulo [Pedroso]I always believed in him, I had never seen anything strictly indicating those sinister accusations. I realized that there was a campaign organized in the media. I started asking questions to friends of the law and the media and I realized that there is a guy named Pedro Guerra. [ex-jornalista do semanário independente e assessor do então ministro da Defesa, Paulo Portas] who is the main disseminator of malicious information ”, he accused.
Ana Gomes said that she lived those times “with a lot of pain.”
“Own pain and solidarity with those two men [Ferro e Pedroso], and their families, who were being miserably vilified. And pain for the PS, attacking the PS in this way, based on those accusations, was to attack democracy, because the PS is a pillar of Portuguese democracy“he stated.
The diplomat, without ever naming one of his announced competitors to the Belém Palace, the president of Chega, André Ventura, took the opportunity to attack him.
“We are seeing a boy who he is a scammer and an opportunist, who, contrary to everything he said and propagated, is in parliament at the same time as in a company that helps the rich and companies to escape from the tax authorities “, criticized.
According to Ana Gomes, “he [Ventura] popular sentiment about corruption rides, but in a reckless and perverse way.
“Those who basically help and feed the extreme right-wing populists are those who, being in power, whether in parliament, in the Government, in the Presidency of the Republic or in the courts, devalue the fight against corruption, they do not provide the means for this fight, they do not promote the necessary actions to combat corruption and impunity of corrupt and corrupting people, ”he concluded.
“I even took up arms” against fascism
Ana Gomes admitted having resorted to armed struggle to “defend democracy and freedom” against “fascism and dictatorship.”
“If today we were under fascism and dictatorship again, if necessary, I would continue to do the same or more. And if it were necessary today, to defend democracy and freedom, I would even take up arms, I have no doubt about that.” , set.
During the 279 pages of Ana Gomes, life and the world, The book by the journalist of the Diário de Notícias João Pedro Henriques, former leader and MEP of the PS, recalled his political and professional career, from his membership in the PCTP / MRPP to his diplomatic career and his role in the self-determination process in Timor-Leste, among many other issues.
Attending the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, which began in the dictatorial period, she was joined by the prosecutor Saldanha Sanches and the attorney María José Morgado, the lawyer García Pereira and the then extremist Durão Barroso, against the state regime Novo and the Colonial War, for the “revolution in full swing.”
“There were some teachers who were very open to anti-regime students, such as Miguel Galvão Telles and Luís Silveira, others who were friendly but aligned with the regime, such as Marcelo [Rebelo de Sousa]”, he described, despite the” positive balance “made by the current president of the Republic’s mandate.
After April 25, the marriage with the lawyer António Monteiro Cardoso, the birth of the daughter Joana and the job removed her from the PCTP / MRPP, followed by the contest for the diplomatic career, advising the then President of the Republic, General. Ramalho Eanes, and placements in Geneva, Tokyo, London, New York and Jakarta, until he was dedicated to the European Parliament, already with a socialist activist card, but only in 2002.
In the 1980s, behind the scenes at the Palace of Belém, Ana Gomes became involved with the diplomat António Franco and they married in the following decade, staying together until the recent death of her partner, in a relationship troubled by the missions of the Ministry Foreign Relations that both never abdicated.
Franco was later head of the Civil House of the President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio.
Inveterate Chinese Porcelain Collector
After the long and laborious process of independence for East Timor, the then Portuguese ambassador to Indonesia, who had gained enormous media coverage, met again with José Manuel Barroso, already installed as prime minister before becoming president of the European Commission .
The now president of the Goldman Sachs bank in Europe and head of the Global Vaccine Alliance invited Ana Gomes to join the PSD, but the diplomat said that he had already engaged with the then socialist leader, Ferro Rodrigues, current president of the Assembly of the Republic.
“A party is an instrument, like any other, to come to power,” argued the non-executive president of the Goldman-Sachs financial group and a former PCTP / MRPP partner.
The presidential candidate said that she responded: “Oh my dear Zé Manel [Durão Barroso], for me it is not, for me, it is ideology, they are principles, they are values, and I see myself in the PS ”.
In the 279 pages of the work, Ana Gomes assumes herself as an atheist who respects the religious and an enthusiastic collector of Chinese porcelain.
The book Ana Gomes, life and the world, by Palimpsesto Editora, hits bookstores next week and is on sale in the meantime online.
