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The Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Pedro Nuno Santos (E), is confronted by Joana Amaral Dias, a list of Lisbon from DNA.
“You deceive people, don’t be a liar,” replied Pedro Nuno, highly pressured by the DNA candidate.
Socialist Secretary-General Pedro Nuno Santos ended a visit to the Livramento Market, Setúbal, with a tense moment After being confronted by DNA candidate Joana Amaral Dias, on the 11th day of campaign at the Livramento Market in Setúbal.
Surprising the PS leader within the market, Joana Amaral Dias was shouting as she followed behind Pedro Nuno Santosabout the subsidies of travel, asking him if he has already returned the money to Parliament and that these subsidies are for “real trips”, “are afraid of the questions” and the “people want to know” while heard elements of the caravan shout “PS, PS, PS”.
The socialist leader was answering “Be serious” and “don’t be a liar”showing a little annoyed by the situation, after Joana Amaral Dias had followed him for a moment to the counter of a coffee, where several socialist supporters came around the leader.
Joana Amaral Dias and Pedro Nuno Santos at the Livramento Market in Setúbal:
Jad-o people want to know. I play the role that ask me.
PNS- No, you don’t do. You deceive the people.
Jad- returned the 203 thousand euros?
PNS- Be serious. Don’t lie.
Jad- Did the trips happen?
PNS- Don’t be …– Cláudia Teixeira (@claudiaaic)
Already then, in the outside of the market, Joana Amaral Dias was with three more supporters, being smiling and wishing the journalists “good work”.
What does Amaral Dias refer to?
In 2024, between 2005 and 2015, despite living in Lisbon for most parliamentary work.
Already at the time, Pedro Nuno Santos said that “fulfilled all the rules” of the Assembly of the Republic and clarified that his life was concentrated in São João da Madeira, in Aveiro, a district by which he was elected deputy and that, Lisbon, became the city of his usual residence, after joining the first government of António Costa.
Earlier, Pedro Nuno Santos was greeking customers and traders on the market, distributed red roses and a pensioner who complained about the small reform and knowing cases of people who have never discounted and receive 600 euros, the socialist leader said that “reality is hard”.
“The reality of the majority is tough, it does not mean that there can be no case or another injustice, but most worked hard and earn little,” he said, also mentioning that “you can’t tell the stories of our people.”
Much were those who addressed the PS secretary-general with low pension stories, but also with the guarantee that they will vote for the socialists next Sunday.
