Rui Rio took the protagonism to Ricardo Araújo Pereira

The show’s “star” is the presenter, but during those minutes there were times when Ricardo didn’t even know how to react.

Rui Rio He said, at the end of last year, that he is out of the race to the 2026 presidential elections. In fact, it is out of politics in general.

“My state of mind right now, and what I foresee for the near future, is not having a great desire to return to any political office. The world goes around, but honestly, this is my state of mind. ”

“They can’t get angry with me for that. I’ve given politics for many years, ”continued the former PSD leader in.

This Sunday, he returned to the subject when they didn’t even ask him anything about it. “Today a lot of people tell me, ‘don’t reform, return to politics.’ In this framework, what they tell me most is that I have to apply for the President of the Republic. I don’t want to, but so many people say… I have to prepare for this eventuality. ”

That is why, in, showed his first (alleged) poster, “For the case” of applying for the Presidency of the Republic. In the photograph you see a young Rui Rio, when it was… military.

The slogan appears next to it: “Against the marching cannons, march” – It is a matter of marketing, explained Rui Rio: “Now there is war everywhere, the Portuguese people are eager to participate in a war, this slogan It gives this hypothesis of fulfilling a yearning. ”

At the beginning of the program, I had joked with Survey: “The Portuguese people sometimes escape reality, surround the polls and do these nonsense. It is democracy we have. Are you seeing what the people do? ”Asked the RICARDO ARAÚJO PEREIRAwho had reminded him that in the 2022 legislative elections, Rui Rio (who lost) had a percentage of votes slightly higher than Luís Montenegro in 2024 (which he won).

Rio finds – or not – that Portugal has recorded a “Intelligent evolution of politicsattractive, which makes you want to go back ”: those on the left easily call“ Nazi, fascist ”to someone, the right ones easily call“ socialist, communist ”.

“And if someone in the center, like me, says something more balanced, sensible, they also call me son I don’t know how many mothers at the same time.”

At this point in the conversation, the protagonist of the program was already evident: Rui Rio, not Ricardo Araújo Pereira.

Still under an ironic tone, and when talking about the “ethics bath” that the former deputy suggested in 2017, for politics, Rui Rio became the center of attention: “I have been noticeing itself and I think Ricardo has some way for politics And I could help to give this hose: it has political insight, sharpness, Comment on Sunday… And there is a way for the favorable, for the clowning. ”

Ricardo Araújo Pereira takes the mug, landing again, looks several times to the interviewee.

Rui Rio insisted: it would even be the “godfather” from the entrance of Ricardo Araújo Pereira in politics. And, which The right pricebrought another memory to the program: a apron -“If you enter this in politics, all doors open. Is guaranteed, ”he said, alluding to the Masonry.

Then the subject was Lina Lopes, The former deputy who left the PSD to apply for the Setúbal City Council as independent, but supported by the arrival.

Lina Lopes was one of Rio’s great supporters, said Ricardo. But the former mayor of Porto has again responded to the height: “I had very much supporters, but much larger than Lina Lopes. Paulo Mota Pinto was 1.90m, António Topa Gomes was 1.80m and many. I do not speak in itself because it got into the pitch, but it could have been a great supporter of mine. ”

In relation to Enough: “It has a noble agenda: Against banditry, against pedophilia, by Christian values. There is no more noble. They don’t deserve this insinuation. ”

Closer to the end, Mendes marks. More irony: “It was a loyalty, a collaboration, Sunday to Sunday always supporting me, it was just compliments. I can’t forget that. Ingratitude is an ugly thing. It is that there are commentators who only defend friends and their personal schedule. This is an almost moving subject. Marques Mendes was not a big supporter of mine – It was a very great supporter“.

Ricardo Araújo Pereira laughed, stopped, said “very well”, looked at the audience, hesitated what to say below.