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António José Seguro with António Costa in Lisbon, September 2013
Former PT leader will think about whether he will run for president of the Republic. And he holds no regrets or grudges about what happened in 2014.
The former general secretary of the PS Antonio José Seguro assumed to be ponder at this moment a candidacy for President of the Republic and that “everything is open”.
In an interview with , Seguro was asked if he was considering a candidacy for Belém in the next presidential elections after the PT member, Pedro Nuno Santos, having mentioned his name among the possibilities for this electoral race.
“Everything is open. Right now I’m considering because, naturally, after this news became public and the statement from the general secretary of the Socialist Party, several people have spoken to me about this hypothesis”.
“These are people that I consider, they are people who are references in Portuguese society and I listen to their arguments”, he continued, before warning: “The decision is mine and in conversation with my family“.
He will make this decision when he “feels the conviction” that he can serve Portugal and “unite the Portuguese in an extremely difficult phase in the life of the country and the world”.
In an interview also with TVI/CNN at the beginning of October, the secretary general of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, considered that the governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, would be a “good candidate” for President of the Republic, but that António José Seguro, António Vitorino or Ana Gomes are also other good names.
Despite having been placed outside the party by Antonio Costa, in the internal elections of 2014, the former PS leader assures: “I don’t hold any regrets. What happened in 2014 stayed in 2014″. Even because He is not a “man of grudges”.
However, don’t forget of what happened: “Now, the memory does not fade and whoever lived that moment intensely will naturally keep their memories”.
António José Seguro, who led the PS between 2011 and 2014, will now have a weekly space for analysis and commentary on current affairs on CNN Portugal, which will be called “Liberdade” and will air every Thursday.
