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Luís Montenegro, PSD leader
Luís Montenegro was in Fatima when he began to come out white smoke from the chimney of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, announced the election in the new Pope. Ad leader considers it to be a “very happy coincidence.”
A divine sign? Luís Montenegro was in Fatima When it started to come out white smoke in the Vatican, to announce the.
The leader of the Democratic Alliance (AD) was informed of the news by the media when leaving a store of religious articles in Fatima. “Eh there! We came to Fatima and there is white smoke,” he exclaimed.
When asked if it is a signal for the campaign to be reelected Prime Minister, Montenegro replied that yesalthough I don’t know what.
It was 6:08 pm at the Vatican (5:08 pm in Lisbon), when it began to come out white smoke from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, marking the election of a new Pope. The bells of the São Pedro Basilica touched the repique, announcing the choice of new head of the Catholic Church.
The American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost69, was chosen, after two days of conclave. Leo XIV succeeds Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88.
Montenegro highlights “political meaning”
In the reaction, Montenegro highlighted the “political meaning” of the choice From an American cardinal, Robert Francis Prevost, to a new Pope and stressed that the name Leo XIV indicates a vocation for social work.
Luís Montenegro spoke to journalists in Santarém, before an AD campaign initiative, and after already published a note of congratulations to the new Pope in his official account as Prime Minister on Social Network X.
I congratulate his holiness Pope Leo XIV for the election and I wish a pontificate full of light, humanism and universalism.
I congratulate Portuguese Catholics and Catholics from around the world.
That at this international time of great instability and uncertainty, Pope Leo XIV and the Holy See…
– Luís Montenegro (@lmontenegro_pt)
Asked if when it speaks of political meaning it refers to the Pope’s nationality, he answered affirmatively.
“I believe so, I will not be interpreting it in the greatest depth of choice, there will be no shortage of personalities to be able to do so with property and knowledge, but it is not hard to recognize that I also see this symbolism of being a American pope,” he said.
The PSD leader greeted “Portuguese Catholics, the Catholics who profess this faith around the world,” but stressed that one of the marks that the previous Pope Francis “was precisely the interreligious dialogue”.
“I am convinced that this choice will follow this pathwhich is a way meeting, convergence, peace“, These.
