Manuel de Almeida / Lusa
PS President Carlos César
The president of the PS considered “strong and aggregator” the candidacy of José Luís Carneiro and sent the congress to “the last quarter of the year or first trimester of the next.” The sole candidate for leadership has left guarantees of “political stability,” but expects AD to take the first step.
Carlos César, who at the end of the National Commission of the Socialist Party this Saturday assumed the party’s interim leadership with the departure from Pedro Nuno Santos From the position of secretary general, he spoke to journalists about “wide majority”With which its electoral calendar proposal was approved, that is, direct elections on June 27 and 28.
“Which means that the PS has a very accurate conscience of the need to at this stage reactivate your leadershipto make it legitimate and effective, so that the party can, in conjunction with the other organs that are already elected, successfully wage these next electoral battles that concern local municipalities, ”he emphasized.
“Everything indicates that the secretary general will be José Luís Carneiroor at least that the strongest, more consolidated, better known candidate will be José Luís Carneiro, ”noted Carlos César.
After Duarte Cordeiro have confirmed that it will not be a candidate for the leadership of the PS, also Fernando Medina, Mariana Vieira da Silva and Ana Catarina Mendes They have already announced that, leaving the way free to José Luís Carneiro.
Carneiro, who surprised when he positioned himself as an alternative to Pedro Nuno Santos in 2023, now has the support of the largest district federationsincluding Porto, Braga and Coimbra. Even old rivals, such as Manuel Pizarro, joined around his name.
His strategy of preparation over the last years has proved effective, making it virtually unfeasible Any alternative application.
The former Minister of Internal Affairs “is a person with proof givenas is known. He is a person who knows not only the party but the Portuguese society, but the different areas of power, ”said Carlos César.
Considering that Carneiro is “The person with the necessary profilewith the proper profile ”, the president of the PS considered that José Luís Carneiro will undoubtedly represent If you are elected, with great dignity and very efficiently the socialist party ”.
The new leader will then have the “great challenge of renewing these evidence Positive in the lead of the PS, ”said the PS president.
“It is an effective leaderwhich has a mandate to fulfill. Of course, this mandate will then be complemented by holding the congress and the elections for delegates to Congress, which will certainly take place in the last quarter of the year or the first quarter of the next, ”he said.
For Carlos César, “it is natural to exist, if José Luís Carneiro wins, some adjustment in some national bodiesso that it has greater intimacy, greater complicity with the executive team with it. ”
The interim leader of the PS does not consider Congress “an urgency” and argued that it “should be combined with a more continuous reflection, more paused And perhaps, longer, the socialist party has to do about your life. ”
Carneiro enables AD government
At the end meeting of the National Party Commission, José Luís Carneiro left the guarantee of “political stability”, committing to a “solution of Unity in Diversity”, Contributing to the country’s stability, but considered that it is responsible for ad to“ the first step ”to start dialogue.
“We understand well the message that was addressed to us and the PS, in what you depend on you, will do everything to contribute to the country’s political stability. This is what citizens asked us during the election campaign and this is the commitment we will try to ensure, ”Carneiro told reporters.
According to the so far only candidate for the leadership of the PS, this is what citizens They asked for the election campaign And that is the commitment that will seek to ensure.
But for the candidate for the leadership of the socialists, “It is up to the governmentAD, mostly voted, Naturally, the first step so that this dialogue can be stressed. ”
Despite the guarantee of stability, José Luís Carneiro pledged to make a “firm, serious and responsible opposition“, Pressing on that Ad” defines itself on who wants to treat governance matters. “
In internal termsleft the commitment to “ensure the construction of a solution of unity in diversity”, noting that “there are different sensitivities, ways of thinking various about the world, about policy options” within the PS.
“Naturally, There are different sensitivitiesways of thinking various about the world, about politics options, and what I guaranteed to my comrades was that Only those who do not want will not be in the management bodies or in the responsibility structures of the PS, ”he said.
