Seguro anticipates the PS: he has already created a movement and takes a step forward for Belém

UPortugal is the association launched by the possible socialist candidate for president, who will detail its purpose this Thursday.

This Wednesday, Antonio José Seguro announced the creation of a new movement, which it named UPortugal (playing on the words “up”, “for upwards” in English, and Portugal), the newspaper advances.

The objective will be to “contribute to strengthening the democratic participation of citizens and for the promotion of a free, fair, plural, humanist, progressive, cohesive, supportive, developed and ecologically sustainable society”.

According to the same newspaper, the objective of the new association will be detailed this Thursday night, in the socialist’s commentary space on CNN, entitled “Freedom”.

The announcement of the movement, which Público says is a “launching pad” for the 2026 presidential elections (for which Seguro would still be considering running or not) comes at a time when the PS has not yet made a decision regarding which candidate it will support.

And the socialists seem more inclined to “launch”, in turn, António Vitorino and not the potential socialist candidate who most expressed his desire to run.

However, this would not be the first time that a presidential candidate has advanced with a candidacy for Belém without yet having the support of his party. 30 years ago, too Jorge Sampaio, during the Guterres governmenthe did: he advanced completely alone.

And the name Seguro doesn’t seem to sit well with many prominent members of the PS. Another potential candidate, Augusto Santos Silvaguaranteed that Vitorino “meets all the requirements, while Seguro “if it’s just banalities“, he commented last week on .

With or without support, Seguro had already assured that “there does not have to be the sponsorship or endorsement of a party” to run to Belém. The new movement should be another step in the increasingly evident intention to do so.