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This expectation was conveyed by António Costa at the inauguration of the “Circulatura do Quadrado” program on TVI, moderated by the journalist Carlos Andrade, with the regular participation of the PS parliamentary leader, Ana Catarina Mendes, the former PSD leader Pacheco Pereira and deputy of the Council of State António Lobo Xavier.
“I hope the second term is the same as the first. What these elections translated was clearly a generalized and transversal recognition in Portuguese society for the way in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa exercised his first term, ”said the Prime Minister.
António Costa later considered that “it was this vote of confidence in continuity that led to the electoral result of last Sunday.”
According to the executive leader, until now, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as before with Cavaco Silva, has maintained an “adequate institutional relationship with the government.”
“The President of the Republic has never stopped being demanding with the Government, whether in good times, such as when Portugal came out of the excessive deficit procedure, whether in difficult times, such as the fires of 2017 or the covid- 19 pandemic, “he said.
Regarding the electoral results of the presidential elections last Sunday, speaking as secretary general of the PS, António Costa said the following: “Of the socialists I know, they all had reasons to celebrate,” he said, referring to those who voted for Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. , Ana Gomes or João Ferreira.
