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The PS deputy, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, accused the new secretary general of JS Miguel Matos of Stalinism, saying that erased his name and that of António José Seguro from the history of this youth organization.
This Sunday, at the end of the XXII National Congress of Socialist Youth, which took place in digital format due to covid-19, Miguel Matos spoke with several former leaders of this organization since the 1970s, such as Margarida Marques and Arons de Carvalho, among others. more recent, such as Duarte Cordeiro, Pedro Nuno Santos and Maria Begonha.
Miguel Matos, Socialist deputy and former economic adviser to Prime Minister António Costa, in the series of former JS leaders you mentioned, He did not refer to Sérgio Sousa Pinto or the previous party leader, António José Seguro.
In statements to the Lusa agency, Sérgio Sousa Pinto considered that “this is the behavior of a Stalinist”.
“With Stalin, the figures uncomfortable with the current situation were erased from the photographs. The election of a Stalinist is the worst misfortune that can happen to an organization like JS. I never thought that JS would try to erase me from your memory“said the current chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, which JS headed in the 1990s.
Sérgio Sousa Pinto also considered “the serious omission of António José Seguro” in the speech of the new leader of JS.
“António José Seguro, until now, was the only JS leader who also assumed the post of secretary general of the PS. This ongoing revisionism in some sectors of the party is totally unacceptable,” said Sérgio Sousa Pinto.
In his first speech as leader, after being elected at the XXII JS Congress, Miguel Matos argued that an “unprecedented crisis”, such as the one caused by the covid-19 pandemic, should be responded to with “a reinforced and strengthened”.
And he promised that JS will always be “against those who want to dismantle” the welfare state in Portugal, the right wing, and made the defense of the National Health Service (SNS) “free and of quality.”
It was in this sequence that Miguel Costa Matos demanded, before the secretary general and prime minister of the PS, António Costa, a “public education”, including higher education and public nurseries, “completely free in all teaching cycles and excellence” .
The new general secretary of JS, elected with 179 votes in favor, 17 against and six blank, also called for “retaliation” to the right-wing forces in the debate of ideas and attacked the “cowardly” far right for not defending not even Attacking “the weakest” in society.
“The far right will never dictate to us,” he promised.
Critic of capitalism, Miguel Matos Santos said that “the invisible hand of the market cannot govern the lives” of citizens, who are not “mere numbers.”
