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The Secretary General of the Socialist Party (PS), Pedro Nuno Santos
Sérgio Sousa Pinto’s departure from the PS lists for legislative elections picked up the party by surprise, and Pedro Nuno Santos does not inhibit a cynical criticism of the deputy who leaves parliament after 16 years.
“Sérgio Sousa Pinto accepted to integrate the liststhey were approved, his on Monday, has known the composition since Monday. This morning decided that after all I didn’t likewho wanted to leave, ”said Pedro Nuno Santos in statements on Thursday, in an interview with SIC’s“ Julia ”program.
“He explained to me the reasons“, He added in the conversation with host Julia Pinheiro, noting, however, that he will not” waste a lot of time with it. “
The PS “There are qualified people, with experience, new people on the lists, and we have a team with the right valuesand that’s what I want on the PS lists and the future government, ”said the PS secretary general.
But why did Sérgio Sousa Pinto come out?
The observer announced that where it was fourth, for Do not review in the remaining team chosen.
But there are socialists who tell the deputy to leave “for a ego question“.
Another socialist militant who considers himself moderate says, in turn, to the news channel that he believes that “Sérgio’s refusal [Sousa Pinto] It has to do with the fact that Pedro Nuno Santos are a few kids on the left“.
However, there is also the idea that there was a alleged malaise among some socialists For the fourth place of Sérgio Sousa Pinto on the list by Lisbon, when he is a deputy who has so often criticized the PS in his television comments.
There are even those who claim that Your departure is a favor for the PS. “I think nothing is lost, even those who will vote in Lisbon with more joy,” says the news channel an old minister who did not want to identify.
Medina and Sérgio Sousa Pinto exits are “shooting in the aircraft carrier”
Also refused to integrate the PS lists for the legislatures because “it made the decision to leave and make a career in the privateand this must be respected, ”said Pedro Nuno Santos in the interview with Julia Pinheiro at SIC.
Medina and Sérgio Sousa Pinto are two figures of Most moderate wing of PS. And a militant considers that his absences from the next early elections are “A shot in the aircraft carrier”as it says to CNN Portugal.
But the internal inconvenience is not just with these two cases. There is a “concern” general with Constitution of the lists“Because it was not possible to have people with superior status, with a certified public life,” assumes the deputy Ascenso Simões to CNN Portugal.
“If in the previous lists there was a part of the former ministers, now there are almost no people with cross -sectional governing experience. a deep cut with the past“It regrets Ascenso Simões.
And there are also doubts about the bets of the socialist leader for municipal electionsnamely regarding the choices of to Lisbon and to Porto. “They have no hypothesis”, They emphasize socialists heard by CNN Portugal.
