For this presentation, the candidate did not invite anyone, except for the mayor of Fafe, and the presence of national figures of the PSD, party that led between 2005 and 2007.
The presentation session is scheduled for 18:00, in the auditorium of the Home Casa da Misericórdia de Fafe to which the name of his father, António Marques Mendes, founder of the PSD in the district and former deputy in the Assembly of the Republic was awarded and in the European Parliament.
For this inaugural presentation, the candidate told Lusa that he had not invited anyone, except for the mayor of Fafe, being for future sessions the presence of national figures of the PSD, which led between 2005 and 2007.
It will be up to the mayor of Fafe, Antero Barbosa, elected and recipient to the next authority by the PS, to make a greeting intervention, before the background speech of the candidate for Belém.
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On Sunday, in yours, Luís Marques Mendes justified his presidential candidacy for understanding, after a personal reflection and “listening to a lot of people” that could be useful to the country and elected three major causes: ambition, stability and ethics.
“We cannot spend our lives in political crises, we cannot spend our lives in dissolution and early elections,” he said, arguing that for such “it is necessary to have some ability to make bridges.”
On the other hand, he promised to “introduce much more strength” the theme of ethics in political life, noting that he made difficult decisions in this domain when he led the PSD between 2005 and 2007, with which within the party “almost no one agreed”.
“Today you need to go much further, but much further. A large part of the Portuguese is a little fed up with politicians, the political class. This is not good in terms of democracy. Make a greater appeal to ethics and deepen and develop a set of decisions for people to rely again, “he said.
Alongside these two causes, Portugal needs ambition, because it is “a country in general, resigned, resigned, it seems that even depressed, it seems that it is accommodated,” which proposes to be fought if he is elected head of state.
“It is a disease that we have this little ambition,” he compared.
Militant ‘orange’ since adolescence
Luís Marques Mendes, 67 and PSD militant since he was 16, has been a deputy, secretary of state, minister in four governments and leader of social democrats between 2005 and 2007.
He is currently a lawyer and advisor of state chosen by the current President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The President of the Republic has already announced that he intends to mark the presidential from 2026 to 25 January, giving a possible second lap on February 15, three weeks later.
Luís Marques Mendes will present his candidacy almost a year in advance – on the eve of the date chosen by the previous head of state Jorge Sampaio, who presented himself as a candidate on February 7, 1995.
