António Pedro Santos / Lusa
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Pedro Duarte
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs admitted that it has “a gigantic intimate temptation” to apply for the Porto City Council.
The minister Pedro Duarte assumed to have “a gigantic intimate temptation” Apply for the Porto City Councilbut has not yet announced any decision, saying there is “a calendar” and “a plan of how and when” it should be done.
“We define-and when I say, it’s basically me and the prime minister, but also the party structures, and not only of my party, and other port personalities-a calendar to have decisions in this regard,” said the minister of parliamentary matters, answering a question of the hearing at a lunch-Debate organized by the International Club of Portugal and subordinate to the theme “Political Challenges for 2025”.
Pedro Duarte admitted that “there is a certain increasing anxiety ” Whether at events like today, or “in the city of Porto itself”, but defended not being able to “falter when there is a plan and a very concrete idea of how and when” you want to present an autarchic candidacy for the second largest city in the country.
“There has to be a sense of responsibility. I am not today a citizen absolutely free, because I am in the exercise of public functions, which I voluntarily decided to assume, and therefore I am not only Pedro Duarte potential candidate, I am a minister and as minister I have to realize that I have responsibilities and I cannot abandon overnight, when I feel like”He said.
Still, he admitted that “his “Almost inexplicable sentimental affinity” with the city of Porto.
“Any appeal that comes from the city of Porto to me is very relevant. I don’t ignore, I can’t ignore, as much as I wanted, I can’t be indifferent. The most I can say is that There is indeed an intimate temptation that is gigantic”He said.
As for the time of the decision, already in statements to the journalists at the end of lunch, it again sent it to the primavera.
“I am not indifferent To a set of voices and appeals and requests and demonstrations I have had with me, people from my party, but essentially people outside the party and independent people or even other parties, ”he reiterated.
“They already know”
Last night, and asked about the same subject, Hugo Soares He said the PSD will announce his candidate for the Porto Authority “when he understands he should announce.”
Na, the parliamentary leader of social democrats said that while he was in the funeral of Pinto da Costa, no one asked him who is the PSD candidate for Porto City Council.
“I spoke a lot about politics and no one asked me. It’s curious. Because I think People, not only do they know, but they are satisfied“Hugo Soares concluded, without further details.
