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Abel Matos Santos harshly criticizes the current leader of the CDS and is concerned about the “continuous erasure” of the party. “The CDS is irrelevant from a national political point of view,” he says.
The right is to discuss whether an agreement with Chega is acceptable or not. PSD’s approach to André Ventura has been widely criticized. Should PSD and CDS be available for agreements with Chega?
The agreement made with Chega is a parliamentary agreement, not a government agreement, and covers very specific issues. I think this agreement is very positive. It was precisely what was lacking that the PS could make agreements with Stalinists and Trotskyists, and the PSD and CDS could not do with right-wing parties that the Constitutional Court considered valid and that did not contradict the Constitution. Didn’t the left like it? Patience, get used to it.
It wasn’t just the left that he didn’t like. Some people on the right also criticized this approach to André Ventura.
It is essential that those who lead the right-wing parties have the ability to build an alternative and are not preparing for a simple negative alternation. It was important for them to work together to create a really positive alternative and not just a contraption of the right to replace the left, without a project and prospects for the future.
How do you see the growth of phenomena like Chega at the same time that the CDS loses support from the electorate?
Chega grows, above all, thanks to the CDS. It is true that there is also the responsibility of the PSD, but the main responsible is the CDS for not knowing how to capture the discontent of the electorate that does not vote for the left. It is true that there may be left-wing voters who want to vote Enough, but the majority of their voters are not from the left, they are working citizens tired of the rot that the system has reached and that the CDS is not understanding. When the parties fail to respond to people’s problems and stop speaking the language of ordinary people, a gap arises that opens the door for the parties to interpret and understand what people need and feel.
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