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The debate between Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Ana Gomes, broadcast on Saturday night by RTP1, turned out to be the most tense of all 0 involving the candidate for re-election for a second term in the Presidency of the Republic, with the current chief of State in They point “a problem of principles” to the former socialist MEP. Something that happened after Ana Gomes said that, “due to his revelation of friendship with Ricardo Salgado,” Marcelo “is one of the people most interested” in finding out about what happened at Banco Espírito Santo.
“I don’t know if you realize how offensive it is. I have the same interest in all the Portuguese ”, replied Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who after recalling that during his tenure Ricardo Salgado was convicted three times by the Bank of Portugal and is accused in the framework of the BES process. “He tried to question my honor. In politics, anything goes. I would never tell you what you said about me. It is a problem of principles ”, added the current President of the Republic, countering the attitude of his opponent in the presidential elections regarding hacker Rui Pinto.
“The decision is made by the justice and the President of the Republic does not replace the courts,” said Marcelo, while Ana Gomes agreed that it is the responsibility of the justice to “investigate the crimes,” but said that the contribution of Rui Pinto to the investigation. true in cases like Luanda leaks is he Football leaks, suggesting that a head of state should intervene. “Do you think it is normal for a President of the Republic to rule in a judicial case? The one who talks about everything is the ambassador, who is a commentator ”, declared the head of state, who even before the end of the debate moderated by Carlos Daniel still commented that Ana Gomes“ as president must be very interesting ”.
“Debate of ideas” against “prohibit and outlaw” Enough
After a warm start to the debate, dedicated to the question of holding elections at a stage of the pandemic in which Portugal is expected to be in general confinement, Ana Gomes and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa began to diverge, as expected , on the subject of Chega. The former MEP appealed to the late Diogo Freitas do Amaral, who in a debate with Mário Soares said that “he would never normalize the extremist forces”, to attack the opponent of the debate for having accepted a government solution in the Azores that has parliamentary support. of the led party. scored by André Ventura. In his opinion, Marcelo should have given the PS, as the most voted party, the opportunity to achieve a parliamentary majority and, if that were not possible, he would have to tell the PSD that “that kind of understanding was not acceptable.”
Given this, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa asked again “how a president of the Republic denies a parliamentary majority” and explained his differences with Ana Gomes. Criticizing the intention repeated many times by the former MEP to request the outlawing of Chega, the President of the Republic defended that he “wins in the debate of ideas” with Ventura – stating that both he and the interlocutor did so in the debates with the leader de Chega- and not “prohibit and outlaw” the party.
After Ana Gomes defended that André Ventura’s voters should be “returned to the democratic space”, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa asked her “why did she wait to be a presidential candidate to request the banning of Chega” and reiterated that this type of attacks “It is what gives weight to these sectors.” For her part, the MEP said again that, if elected, she will be “incisive in the usual relationship with the Attorney General’s Office to have the courage to do her job.”
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