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Officially, the PSD national leadership had nothing to do with the agreement reached with Chega in the Azores. Officially, the understanding was limited to the regional plan. Officially, Rui Rio and André Ventura did not articulate on the negotiations. But Expresso knows that the leaders of both parties have been involved in the negotiations since the PS lost an absolute majority in the archipelago and the possibility of forming a right-wing regional government led by José Manuel Bolieiro emerged.
On the Sunday of the elections, Rio took refuge in the “total autonomy” of the regional political commission to get away from a discussion that would force him to a very delicate management. “It will be the PSD in the Azores that will determine what it wants to do,” he said. He also admitted having an “idea” about what he would try to rehearse to overcome a situation of eventual ungovernability, but referred that responsibility to Bolieiro.
