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It was 9:45 am, Ana Gomes was driving from Porto to a meeting that she had scheduled for 10:00 in the Matosinhos city hall when she published a video on social networks: she herself putting red lipstick on her lips. Without a single word. THE hashtag #VermelhoemBelem seemed to speak for itself, but, looking closely, it wanted to say something more than Ana Gomes’s support for the wave of solidarity with Marisa Matias, who had been the target of insults from André Ventura.
The red lipstick symbol was the personification of what Ana Gomes stands for: an anti-Ventura presidential gimmick, to prevent Chega’s candidate from taking second place and eventually push Marcelo into a second round. That is, a withdrawal of Marisa in favor of her candidacy (which, even so, is better positioned in the polls, club to club with Ventura). But Bloco de Esquerda doesn’t even want to hear about this “agenda.” “Don’t even think about it,” said Marisa Matias this Friday.
The challenge, which had already been launched during the presidential debates, was again made this afternoon by the candidate for the parade of an article by the founder of Livre, Rui Tavares, which, in turn, was shared by the deputy and leader of the PS Tiago. Barbosa Ribeiro. On Twitter, Ana Gomes was clear: “It will never be for me that the left does not converge before the elections”. Tiago Barbosa Ribeiro, a socialist deputy close to Pedro Nuno Santos who this Saturday will be present in Ana Gomes’ campaign, added that if the party leaderships (PS included) “did not know how to interpret the moment we live in office for the presidential elections” then it is the task of the “left people”. And the interpretation, in his opinion, is to unite the left to dethrone the right.
As I explained, it will never be for me that the left does not converge before the elections. https://t.co/no6Io8UfqA
– Ana Gomes (@AnaMartinsGomes) January 15, 2021
“It is not an invitation to surrender [da candidata Marisa Matias] nor a specially thought strategic position, ”says the source of Ana Gomes’s candidacy for the Observer, recalling that this has always been the position of Ana Gomes, a staunch defender of the left-wing union in parliamentary support for the country’s governance and defender of a 2.0 gadget that would fall to the ground in 2019. In the final stretch of the first week of the official campaign, Ana Gomes’ choice of words did not sound innocent, although there is little hope, in the socialist campaign, that this “convergence ”Actually happen.
While Ana Gomes was painting her lips, Marisa Matias – who would publicly thank her for this support – closed the door to any possibility of convergence. Even if the polls, as is the case with the most recent Pitagórica poll for Observer / TVI, place André Ventura ahead of Ana Gomes in second place and Marisa Matias far behind.
“I’ve already answered that question and it hasn’t changed at all. Unless there is a political agenda here that is not mine and I don’t know what it is, in favor of another candidacy, I don’t understand it, I’m not going to… It won’t happen ”.Marisa Matias responded promptly when journalists asked her about the possibility of considering resigning in favor of Ana Gomes. The 9 days of the elections, a return no.
Observer Survey / TVI / Pythagorean. André Ventura goes to second place
In the pages of the newspaper Público, the parliamentary leader of the Bloco de Esquerda, Pedro Filipe Soares, wrote an article to make it clear that “I decide who I vote for.” In other words, he will vote on conviction and not on anti-Ventura calculus, what he calls “artificial bipolarization.”
“Whoever thinks that the left is measured by the caliber of the right and in submitting to the agenda of populist candidates is wrong. If I don’t accept commenters or polls to limit my choice, also I will not vote for the blackmail imposed by the extreme right or the creation of artificial bipolarizations “We read, underlining that “the vote that adds up is that of ideas and values”, and not that of artificial strategy.
In the middle, a criticism of Ana Gomes, who has defended issues such as the labor issue and the fight against precariousness – where PS and BE did not understand each other in the last State Budget – and that, in BE’s opinion, did not it has property for it because in these matters “the PS stayed to the left.”
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