Carneiro: PS remains the second political force

There will be more deputies, but PS had more votes, recalls the candidate for the leadership of the party. “Most chose the PS for second party.”

The candidate for socialist leadership José Luís Carneiro He defended today that the PS, having had more votes than arrives, remained the “second most important force in the relationship of trust with the Portuguese”.

Speaking to journalists after a meeting with the direction of UGT, José Luís Carneiro stated that the “Most Portuguese chose the PS for second party” and that, in the definition of who is the second political force, What counts are the number of votes – because “each vote counts” – not the number of elected deputies.

“If we value the principle ‘a man, a vote’means that we value each vote. And in this arithmetic that each vote counts, the Socialist party was the second party with the largest number of votes From the Portuguese part, ”he added, asked if the socialists, despite having fewer deputies of what arrives, remains the second largest political force.

Carneiro said this is not his opinion, but a “arithmetic” question, concluding that if the PS had the candidacy with the second largest number of votes is the “second most important force in the relationship of trust with the Portuguese”.

The arrival became the second political force on Wednesday in terms of parliamentary representation, surpassing the PS, electing two of the four deputies of the circles of emigration.

It arrives in both circles of emigration, Europe and outside Europe, and elected two deputies, the same number of elected from the AD – PSD/CDS coalition.

André Ventura’s party thus reaches 60 deputies, while the PS is 58, while, in number of votes, the socialists remain ahead. The PS had 1,442,194 votes and arrives 1,437,881 votes.