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“A candidate against the fear of what is coming” and who defends “politics with big feet,” said Isabel Soares. At the audience, right in the front row, the Minister of Infrastructure applauded. Pedro Nuno Santos insisted on being present at the public presentation of the national president of the presidential candidacy of Ana Gomes. Even if, for that, he interrupted the session to present the TAP plans to the different parliamentary groups. And, of course, the meeting of the Council of Ministers was missed, which took place without the presence of António Costa, still in Brussels.
Political signals were the main objective of the ceremony. The election of the daughter of the founder and history of the PS, Mário Soares, as agent, was one of them. “A free woman, who was born a socialist everywhere, who is a socialist but who never lived near the PS”, this is how Ana Gomes referred to Isabel Soares and the “honor” of having her in the front line. request.
“Get used to it,” he told those present, referring to the fact that he had chosen a woman as his agent. But, between the lines of the speech, it was much more than a question of gender. The candidate wants to show the assets she has in the campaign and the ability to gather support inside and outside the socialist universe.
In the audience, in addition to Pedro Nuno Santos, there were also socialists from various sectors, many of whom were out of line with the current leadership: Paulo Pedroso was there as part of the candidacy committee, but still João Cravinho, Vera Jardim, Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos or former Minister of Culture, Castro Mendes. Also present was Francisco Assis, president of the CES. Manuel Alegre, Cristina Chéu, Tiago Barbosa Ribeiro and Susana Peralta not only did not show up for “urgent commitments”, but they registered support from a distance.
The founder of Livre, Rui Tavares and the directors of the PAN, André Silva and Inês Sousa Real, were also part of the audience limited for security reasons and always wearing a mask. Ricardo Sá Fernandes was another of the sympathizers present.
Marcelo and the silences
“The next presidential elections are fundamental,” said Isabel Soares. The “disturbing” and “difficult” times that we are living justify the support of a “frontal, brave and left-wing” candidate, says the national representative of Ana Gomes who speaks of “hope”, but also in that “often uncomfortable voice “. even for the game itself. “
And the candidate thanked the “honor” and guaranteed that “accepting to be my national agent gives me great strength.” And he went on to attack. In the journalists’ question and answer session, Ana Gomes took the opportunity to speak about the presidential silences on issues that she considered “of greater relevance” or “very important.” This is the case of the “very sad case” of the death of a Ukrainian citizen at the airport and also of the criticism of Brussels about the operation of the Madeira free zone. “Very serious issues for democracy and on which, to this day, I have not seen the President of the Republic draw the slightest word.”
“I did not hear the president pronounce on the Madeira free zone. And it was a matter of absolute priority,” said Ana Gomes on the matter that led to a Brussels sanction on the Portuguese State for granting “intolerable tax benefits to companies that do not deserve and in the falsified database “. The president “cannot stop commenting on what is important,” Ana Gomes told his most direct opponent. The campaign has already started to warm up the engines.
