José Sena Goulão / Lusa
The former secretary-general of the Socialist Party, Pedro Nuno Santos
“I know the next PS leader will not do anything that I am saying now. It will go wrong. Then I will ask, ‘Remember?”
Pedro Nuno Santos He announced his on Sunday night, Legislative Elections Day.
An electoral act that has ended with the last 40 years, and the probability that the Socialist Party is, for the first time, only the third party with more deputies in the Assembly of the Republic.
In this speech, before announcing his departure, he warned: “It is not up to me to be the support of this government. And I think this role should not fit the Socialist Party either.”.
Because Luís Montenegro “has no suitability” to be a prime minister. Because it leads a government that “failed to various levels.” And because the government program “goes against the principles and values” of the PS.
That is, the now former PS secretary general was leaving, but at the same time was the indicate what you think the party should do; and with justifications.
“In my opinion, they are more than enough reasons for the Socialist Party not to support a government led by Luís Montenegro,” said Pedro Nuno.
João Miguel Tavares heard the speech, classified it as “disastrous”, but left a warning: “He said, not thinking about the PS, but in him himself”.
For the commentator of, Pedro Nuno Santos was already signaling that You can go back to the race for the PS leadership. Not now, but “In a few years”.
And this was the subliminal message of Pedro Nuno, when he publicly announced what he thinks the PS should do – not to pass the government of AD.
This warning will have come out in this regard: “If the PS doesn’t do what I’m saying, and if you run badly… attention I can go back after that”.
Or, in the words of João Miguel Tavares: “I know that the Next PS leader will not do anything that I am saying now. But, as I think this strategy will go wrong, I can say in two or three years: ‘Remember?’ I was talking to a ‘See you soon’, I was talking to your return“.
Almost a week later, last Saturday, Pedro Nuno Santos that his party political life is over.
But it may just be a “see you soon.”
