Marcelo is in a hurry: Prime Minister can be nominated already this Thursday

President of the Republic summed up: “I will hear the three parties first. If I can afford to make a note of outraging on that day, I do.”

The President of the Republic announced that the PSD, the PS and the afternoon of Thursday e wants to indignate the Prime Minister, if possible, on that day.

“I will hear the three parties first. If I can afford to make a note out on that day, I do“Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said, in response to journalists, leaving the Beato Convent in Lisbon.

Regarding the new hearings to the three largest parties with parliamentary seat, the President of the Republic said that the calendar “It’s already defined ” and will receive them at 15:00, 16:00 and 17:00 Thursday, the day after the results of the emigration circles.

“The idea is that, As soon as I can, I will indignate [o primeiro-ministro]”He added.

Asked if he intends to receive José Luís Carneiro, candidate for secretary general of the PS, the head of state replied: “I will talk to the delegation that comes from the PSwho chooses are them. ”

Still on the PS, Marcelo commented: “Let’s see how it defines. The previous leader defined himself as opposed to the passage of the government program. Let’s see how it is now and then, because of that, we have the portrait.”

The President of the Republic commented to the journalists that the He arrives “It has already been defined as Opposition Leader Potentialbut it is necessary to prove if the opposition leader really goes. ”

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recalled that when he was president of the PSD between 1996 and 1999, and was in opposition, it was a period “complicated to manage as opposition leadera situation following a long period of government ” – from the PSD, led by Cavaco Silva.

Whatever the outcome in 2025, expects to “have the stability warranty”From Thursday, preferably with“ a four -year legislature ”.

But, he remembered, his mandate ends at the beginning of 2026: “I cannot be referring, it was unkindness, what goes beyond my mandate.”

“I am working so that stability lasts beyond that, but let’s say that, for now, it is very important to start in this fundamental period: the entire year 2025, which is still missing, and the beginning of 2026,” he explained.