Rui Rio is the national agent of the candidacy of Gouveia and Melo

The former mayor of Porto and PSD Rui Rio is the national agent of the candidacy of Henrique Gouveia and Melo to the Presidency of the Republic, was announced today.

The Admiral Gouveia and Melo I had a surprise in the sleeve: Rui Rio It is the national agent of his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic.

The announcement was made at a dinner that took place this Saturday at the Porto Customs Congress Center, named Rui Rio was announced by Henrique Gouveia and Melo himself.

The former mayor of Porto and former PSD leader then entered the room where dinner took place, under applause.

In a long speech, Rio began by mentioning that “It was your intention not to return to the main stages of national policy ”.

However, it pointed out the social democrat, “ unstable external conjuncturethe complex economic and social situation of the country and the marked degradation that the Quality of Democracy has suffered ”motivated their return to public life.

According to, the former PSD leader explained that he accepted the invitation to be a representative of the candidacy of Gouveia and Melo because “the country needs a president with dimension and sense of state, free, exempt and independent“.

“I accepted because I recognize in this candidacy a convergence of thinking regarding the situation of the country and the concrete actions that urges to implement; I accepted because I think the candidate has the right view, the ability and determination to continue to serve Portugal; Because I see in Gouveia and Melo the sobriety, the courage I want to characterize our President of the Republic, ”he said.

In his speech, Rio criticized “Political culture facing marketing and for the short term ”and“Lack of sense of responsibility to reform what has to be renovated, ”which in his opinion justifies the“germination of some disappointment which has been seized from many Portuguese ”.

“A Democrat cannot stay passive with this evolution, let alone conform to this reality,” concluded Rui Rio, who ended the speech quoting Sá Carneiro: “What I can’t, because I don’t have this right, is to shut upwhatever the pretext it is.