Clara Azevedo / Prime Minister’s Office
António Costa and Luís Montenegro, in a coffee in Brussels
In a country of “Chico-Espered”, the arrival would be even more harmed if the poster had António Costa instead of José Sócrates.
Spinumviva. A name that 99% of the Portuguese did not know, but now 99% of the Portuguese should know.
The doubts around Luís Montenegro’s family business began to accumulate, they were not immediately clarified and later, after the confidence motion was rejected.
Nuno Gonçalo Poças thinks doubts they were” wrongly raised About incompatibilities, exclusivity, value of the goods… doubts that would be justified later ”.
The central point here was the ethics: Montenegro to receive borders, directly or indirectly, while he was a prime minister.
An issue that could have been explained quickly; But it wasn’t, remember the commentator on the radio.
A very recent show that almost half of respondents are still undecided – that can turn rightwarns Nuno.
I.e, Even after this controversy, the PSD can benefitwhile the “Very harmed” can be the PS – for insisting on the spinumviva case – and the He arrives – For taking a “larger step” when placing on the streets with Montenegro alongside José Sócrates.
Right on the first day after the government’s fall, the election campaign began, even not officially. And such posters of the arrival stood out.
But, according to Nuno Gonçalo Poças, voters will realize that the Spinumviva case “was an act of pure boy-pertex. Maybe the technical expression is this. In a country of Chico-Esperior, perhaps it is not that serious“.
Focusing on such posters, who thinks they were an “exaggeration”, the commentator says that Luís Montenegro is not like José Sócrates: “If you have to look like someone, perhaps on a different scale (because it’s not from Lisbon), Perhaps it is the most similar to António Costa. It is very Portuguese in this regard. And people are reviewed somehow”.
By the way, if arrival had put coast in place of Socrates in his posters, “probably things ran even worse because People would feel empathy and proximity to Luís Montenegro“.
Overall, Nuno has imagined this campaign since the result of last year’s legislative elections was known, when AD did not get the absolute majority: “The PSD was always waiting for the right time to return to 1987” – when Cavaco Silva went to Parliament but won then in early legislatures, with absolute majority.
