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The debate is raging in the PS, but not everyone has been talking about what they want to do with the presidential elections. Pedro Nuno Santos has said that he will leave office for when the party debates the issue, but this Wednesday he did not refrain from defending the candidacy of Ana Gomes in front of all those, read socialist leaders, who have it. denigrated. “With this, he again collides with the Prime Minister and fires the starting shot among the socialists who do not want to support Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa implicitly. People are not useful for the PS to do some things from time to time, to to be MEPs, to be candidates for city councils, members of the national secretariat and after a moment to be vilified because it is not possible ”, he said in Sines, referring to Ana Gomes.
The answer was direct to Augusto Santos Silva, who, on Tuesday, said in an interview with TVI that the socialist enriched the debate but should not be supported by the PS. “It is the party’s organs that support it, it is not the Government or the members of the Government who decide who supports or stops supporting. It is the PS who decides, ”said Pedro Nuno Santos.
Although the prime minister asked his presidents for “modesty” about the presidential elections in the August Express interview, neither Santos Silva, first, nor now Pedro Nuno Santos, refrained from entering the debate together on foot. “Not supporting an acting president of the Republic does not mean contempt or lack of respect for disloyalty,” justified the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure. It was a response to António Costa who told Expresso that “the members of the Government must have a particular duty towards the presidentials, taking into account the relationship that the Government must maintain with the next President, with whom we will have to live for a long time. “.
For Pedro Nuno Santos, the lack of support for a candidate does not harm future institutional relations: “We live in a mature democracy and it was just what politicians needed to be upset with each other because they did not have the support of this or that. democracy is really like that, “he added.
On one thing, Pedro Nuno Santos and António Costa are in tune: it will be the PS that defines and the party must give the militants freedom to vote, but adding a point, that they must take into account the best for the Government.
The PS will debate the issue on October 24, in a national commission and that is where the minister will say what he will do, although, as of today, few doubts remain about his support for Ana Gomes. “My sense of vote will be said at the time the party meets to discuss the presidential elections because that is where it will be decided, nowhere else,” said Pedro Nuno Santos.
