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“The PS has no official candidate. Again, it seems like a mistake. But here we are. Free to choose. The attacks on democracy that are felt in Europe, in the United States, in Brazil, etc., are attacks that, for here they remind us of the importance of parties like the PCP, ”said Isabel Moreira, in a Facebook post, two hours after the PCP announced Joáo Ferreira’s candidacy for the 2021 presidential elections.
Isabel Moreira is the first member of the PS, a party that so far has no position on a Belém candidacy, to declare her support for a candidate from another party, in this case, the PCP.
“I am a socialist. I am not a communist. I appreciate, however, the institutionalization of the conflict that I owe to the PCP, which avoids the dream of the enemies of democracy, from the inorganic movements, to the extreme right that have been communicating for so many hours now. social, “he argued further.
Because she is “reluctant to populism”, which “contributes exactly what she” defends in this campaign, and “for all this and much more”, Isabel Moreira assures that she will “vote for João Ferreira, in the name of a non-populist democracy”, “in the name of the rule of law”.
João Ferreira MEP is the PCP’s candidate in the 2021 presidential elections, the party’s general secretary, Jerónimo de Sousa, announced today.
“Our candidacy is to go to the end,” Jerónimo de Sousa said at the end of a meeting of the party’s central committee, rejecting the idea that it is “a candidacy to resign” to give more opportunities to a left-wing competitor. .
Without saying what happened at the meeting, the PCP leader affirmed that the document on the elections and the candidate for the presence was approved “unanimously.”
João Ferreira, 41-year-old biologist, is a PCP deputy and CDU councilor in the Lisbon Chamber.
The deputy secretary general of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, sent today at the “opportune moment” a comment from the party on the presidential elections, after being questioned about the candidacy for Belém of the socialist Ana Gomes.
Former socialist MEP Ana Gomes publicly announced her candidacy for the nation’s highest office on Thursday, stating that she could not “desert” from the fight against the next presidential elections in light of the country’s situation and considering the devaluation of the country “unacceptable.” This act. election by the PS.
Six months after the end of the term of the current President of the Republic, there are already eight candidates for the position of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
They are the deputy André Ventura (Chega), lawyer and founder of the Liberal Initiative Tiago Mayan Gonçalves, the leader of the Republican Democratic Party (PDR), Bruno Fialho, the MEP and BE leader Marisa Matias, former deputy of the European Parliament and the director of the PS Ana Gomes, Vitorino Silva (better known as Tino de Rans), former CDS activist Orlando Cruz and, today, João Ferreira, of the PCP.
NS (ARYL / PMF) // MCL
