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Cecília Meireles left no stone unturned. At the CDS national council, which takes place this Saturday, the Christian Democrat deputy directly challenged Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos and demanded “respect” for herself and the party’s parliamentary group. “Everything has limits,” he shot.
The meeting is held by videoconference, only accessible to elected councilors, but the Observer knows that Cecília Meireles made harsh criticisms of the CDS leadership, even saying that the party is “completely reversing” its priorities. “You are too focused on your inner life and make it essential. Politics is not the internal life of the party. It is the action in the country ”.
The deputy also referred to the party leaders who do not hesitate to question the loyalty and performance of the parliamentary group, as happened in October, when Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos took advantage of a party meeting to denounce the “internal sabotage” and the role of deputies. Cecília Meireles did not withdraw:
My work is in sight. Instead of the festival going through wars of rosemary and marjoram, which are much more fictitious than reality, it was very useful to define the lines that need to be defined. Everything has limits ”.
Later, Cecília Meireles also spoke on the topic of “Enough, the elephant in the room”, which the CDS seems “not to want to face”. The Christian Democrat did not resist the irony (“The PS says that everything is Passos’s fault; the CDS now says that the Assumption is to blame”) and called for a “clear strategy” to confront Chega.
“The problem is getting worse. [André Ventura] Gala to get rid of all of us through our party president and I want to fight this. But we need to have a strategy ”, he concluded.
Cecília Meireles is named, internally, as a possible candidate for the succession of Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos. In an interview with the Observer, João Gonçalves Pereira, deputy, councilor and director of the CDS, even went so far as to say that the deputy “would be a good solution for the CDS leadership.”
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Filipe Lobo d’Ávila, vice president of the CDS and instrumental ally of the current president -it was he who allowed Rodrigues dos Santos to have a majority in the congress-, guaranteed that he was fully committed to the leadership of the party and guaranteed “total solidarity” with the leader . of the CDS.
“My commitment is with CDS. I am with you, my dear Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos ”, said the vice president of the party. On Friday, the weekly Expresso suggested that the Lobo d’Ávila wing may be on the verge of breaking with the party leader, disillusioned with the direction the current leadership was taking.
Now, in the CDS national council, Lobo d’Ávila was very clear: “As long as the change promised in the congress is possible, my solidarity is total,” he said, after recalling that, when he thought that Assunção Cristas was making a strategic mistake decided to leave the place of deputy in the Assembly of the Republic. “I will be disappointed if you think I am staying because I want to stay somewhere within the CDS,” he said.
Earlier, Lobo d’Ávila had already addressed Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos directly to praise the party leader for his efforts. “I know well what were the circumstances in which you began to exercise your mandate,” began by saying vice, recalling the challenges posed by the pandemic and also, for example, the “disastrous financial situation” in which the CDS found itself.
More serious, he argued, was having inherited a party without “identity in the message”, a chronic problem that was “lethal in the confidence of the electorate” of the party.
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Cecília Anacoreta Correia, CDS spokesperson, ended up intervening in the same direction, criticizing the “minority that was defeated in Congress” and that still does not accept the electoral results, revealing “a lack of democratic maturity.”
“Those who have more media space have a shared responsibility to rebuild the chaos of the 4% and promote what is well done by the leadership and the parliamentary group. Our battle is there, it is called socialism, poverty and unemployment. People do not understand that the CDS politicians get lost with the policies, ”he stressed.
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