With Mário Centeno, a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, breaking the taboo himself, SIC found that the Socialist Party has a new favorite and that, curiously, he also passed through the Bank of Portugal.
With Centeno leaving the scene, those who in the PS had the place of candidate for Belém saved to support the current governor of the Bank of Portugal are now turning to a woman.
Preferably you can unite Costistas and Pedronunistas, which is like saying you can combine the past and the present.
It could be Marta Temido but SIC found that ahead of the preferences of these socialists appears… Elisa Ferreira.
Like Mário Centeno, he is also not a PS activist. She was European Commissioner chosen by António Costa and will greatly please Pedro Nuno Santos.
With one certainty: would be a choice that would leave António José Seguro isolated, with many difficulties in obtaining the support of the party he led.
Elisa Ferreira just says that she doesn’t get involved in this conversation:
“I am not a member of the PS, although I am what is usually called a walking companion, but I will not interfere in this matter”.
To the profile, he already adds an essential condition when looking at the other names that are announced: he is anti-Gouveia and Melo.
Elisa Ferreira has an enviable CV: first PhD in Economics from the University of Porto, twice Minister of the Environment, and three times MEP.
She left Brussels in 2017 to become vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal, where she was expected to take the position that now belongs to Mário Centeno, but António Costa decided to appoint her to the European commission and offer the position of governor to his minister of Finance.
Regarding the next race to Belém, however, he avoids showing signs of availability: “I really like to intervene, to help my country in whatever way I can, that’s what I’ve done throughout my life, but presidential elections are not on my horizon”.
