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The hesitation of the pivot of RTP3 just after the “debate” between Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Vitorino Silva helps to set the tone: despite the official name, the half hour that the two presidential candidates presented on the night of this Thursday, 7, it was anything but a debate. The pivot called it “brainstorming.”
Marcelo – perhaps with his hand on his chin, his elbow on the table – seemed rather enraptured by the learning, worried that he had spoken too much and wanted to listen to the “true commentator”, the “political analyst”, as defined by Vitorino Silva. He recalled the debate between them five years ago, when they also ran for Belém. Tino de Rans, for his part, defined himself and Marcelo as the “very charismatic” candidates for these elections.
Carlos Daniel (moderator): What rating did you give to the mandate of the Presidency of the Republic?
Vitorino Silva: Positive assessment. If I were a teacher, a commentator, I would have no problem giving a positive rating. He gave 14. And what did the commentator Marcelo give to the president Marcelo?
The astute commentator-president did not fall short and was political – as he was when announcing the hypothesis of a closure in the next few days, his doubt about whether the presidential date should have changed and also that his goal was always to make only one term , until the pandemic …
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: There was no note. The commentator Marcelo passed away the day he assumed the presidency of the Republic.
And let him listen to Tino de Rans, who shared with him a set of a3 sheets where he says he collected his thoughts from 49 years of life. “Fascinating,” exclaimed Marcelo. “May I enter your secrets?”
A summary of those you shared with Marcelo:
Popular or populist?
Vitorino Silva divided the candidates for these presidential elections into two groups. On the one hand, the three from the “golden exile” (Ana Gomes, Marisa Matias and João Ferreira) who are (or have been) in Brussels and “appear in these elections …”
On the other, the popular ones. “A popular, that’s me. A popular populist [Marcelo] and a popular populist [André Ventura]. The head of state “is the popular populist sometimes without realizing it. Personally, I like the [sic.] Marcelo, I learn a lot from the teacher. “
Marcelo responded: “The populist is what he says what people want to hear. By definition, the President of the Republic has to say things that others do not want to hear. Often it is necessary to veto a law.” It is something else, he said, because “whoever wanted to appear as a populist many times does not appreciate those who approach the people.”
Right or left?
“Nobody in these elections is going to vote from the left and from the right. They will vote for the people,” said Vitorino Silva, who had already assumed that more and more socialists will vote for him because António Costa (a “horse who is so harnessed “) that is going to fall) does not pretend that Marcelo has 70%. And that is why “I am sure that the PS is not going to vote for Marcelo.” On the other hand, they are disappointed that Ana Gomes does not want to win but only “stays in second place.” PD is like Barcelona, compared: you always want to win there.
And by the way, what about the left and the right, which has been debated so much, that is, with André Ventura? “When I go up the street, my house is to the right and when I go down it is to the left. Is my house to the right or to the left? It depends,” concluded Vitorino Silva.
Marcelo would repeat this lesson when Tino invited him to go campaigning for Peñafiel, of which Rans is a parish. “You go to the right and I to the left,” Tino told him. “Going up! Going down, I’m going left”, Marcelo summed up.
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