José Sena Goulão / Lusa
The parliamentary leader of the Socialist Party (PS), Alexandra Leitão, will not be a candidate in the legislatures
The PS does not divert attention from municipal elections and maintains several important party names on the municipalities. Legislative? It is for others. PSD and arrive, for example, repeat names in both elections.
The PS National Political Commission meets next Wednesday to approve the lists of candidates for deputies to early legislative elections.
But it is known that several party names will not be an option in this election, to Do not divert the focus of the municipalities.
As Jornal de Notícias writes, socialists will even ban local municipal candidates from integrating the lists.
Here, there are three strong women from the party, who are currently in the Assembly of the Republic: Alexandra Leitão (current parliamentary leader of the Socialist Party), ANA MENDES GODINHO AND ANA ABRUNHOSA who will be candidates for the Chambers of Lisbon, Sintra and Coimbra, respectively.
Beyond them, There are 10 more current deputies who are left out, as they are already confirmed as candidates for the municipalities, lists JN: Manuel Pizarro (Porto), Nelson Brito (Aljustrel), João Paulo Correia (Gaia), Ricardo Costa (Guimarães) Isabel Ferreira (Bragança), João Azevedo (Viseu), Clarisse Campos (Alcácer do Sal), Fernando José (Setúbal) and Ana Sofia) Antunes (Oeiras).
As the morning recalls, in cases of Nelson Brito, Manuel Pizarro, João Paulo Correia and Ricardo Costa, these deputies had already announced, before the party forbid them, that they would not be again candidates in the legislatures.
But, for example, Marcos Perestrellowhich was being associated with the municipality of Cascais It will no longer be the candidate of the party in the municipalities. Once his name had not yet been announced, the deputy will remain in the lists for the legislatures.
Many of the parties had already pointed out the names for the cameras before the political crisis that led the country to a new and unexpected electoral scenario. Now this setback created internal dilemmas.
O PSD and arrivesfor example, they saw no problem in repeat.
JN sets the arrival example. 14 of the 50 current deputies of the party were nominated for a City Hall: Rita Matias (Sintra), Pedro Pinto (Faro), Rui Cristina (Albufeira), Pedro Correia (Santarém), Manuela Tender (Chaves), João Tilly (Seia), Bernardo Pessanha (Viseu), Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro (Pombal) (Loures), Rui Afonso (Gondomar), Filipe Melo (Cascais) and Nuno Gabriel (Sesimbra).
