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The agreement between PSD and Chega is shaking the Social Democrats. The explanations given by Rui Rio do not convince prominent party members who describe this agreement as “a political error” and a “risky move”.
José Eduardo Martins, former Secretary of State for the Environment, was against an approach to Chega from the beginning and destroyed the option made by the PSD. “I have 35 years of activism in the PSD and I do not think we have made a mistake as serious as this,” said, on Tuesday night, on the program O Outro Lado, of RTP3, the former Social Democratic leader.
José Eduardo Martins recalled that the PSD is a party that “does not distinguish people by ethnicity or sexual orientation”, but by the “valid contribution they are capable of making to society.”
Paula Teixeira da Cruz, former Minister of Justice of Passos Coelho, also protested against the approach to André Ventura. The former vice president of the party defended, in the TSF, that “it does not make sense for a party with a clear, centrist ideology to stick to an extremist party.”
The differences between the two parties did not prevent an agreement in the Azores. Rui Rio has already guaranteed that “there is no national agreement” and that the commitment in the Azores was achieved with proposals that “are neither fascist nor far-right.” The PSD leader reaffirmed that he is only available to talk with André Ventura if Chega becomes a more moderate party.
Carlos Encarnação, former deputy and former mayor of Coimbra, considers it “natural” that there are parliamentary agreements, but warns that it may be “a risky move at the national level.”
The PSD “must make it clear that there is no confusion between what its ideology is and any influence of Chega’s populism” on governance. “If so, everything is fine. Otherwise, everything is spoiled, ”says the PSD story.
“This movie has already been seen”
The agreement between PSD and Chega dominates the political agenda and has left the debate on the State Budgets for 2021 in the background.
The PS attacks almost every day the rapprochement of the Social Democrats to André Ventura’s party and accuses Rui Rio of “complicity with the xenophobic extreme right.”
The PSD leadership devalues criticism from the left and some sectors of the party. “When Francisco Sá Carneiro, Diogo Freitas do Amaral and Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles formed the Democratic Alliance (AD), the reactions were very similar to those of today. This movie has already been seen! “The vice president of the Salvador Malheiro party wrote this Wednesday on social networks.
Rio Rio also addressed the issue on social media, but with irony. “On the advance of fascism in the Azores, what do we have today? Any special news? ”Asked the PSD leader.
The discussion on the agreement ended marking the hearing of Minister Augusto Santos Silva on the Budget. João Cotrim de Figueiredo, from the Liberal Initiative, criticized the “shyness” of the Government with “the dictators of this world” in reference to the relationship with countries such as China and Hungary. In response, the foreign minister said that he does not belong “to any party that leans against those who like dictators and tyrants in order to secure government support,” a clear reference to the agreements made with Chega and the Liberal Initiative to Allow to the government led by the PSD.
