Insurance is candidate for president of the Republic

“What we lack today is not just stability, it is confidence.” Former PS leader thinks Portugal needs change and hope in a better life.

António José Seguro It will be Candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. Just three weeks after, it was PS’s former Secretary-General to confirm his candidacy.

In a video published by, Insurance announces that it advances to the presidential because Portugal “Needs change and hope in a better life ”.

“What lack today is not just stability – it is trust, Confidence in the institutions, confidence that those who are in power serve and do not fit, confidence that we will leave our children more than we receive from our parents, ”explained the former deputy.

In the same video, he said that it takes a “trusting democracy, the one in which people believe that their vote tells, that justice is for everyone, that politicians respond for what the state is present where it is necessary, with ethics, competence and transparency.”

Why The Portuguese “are fed up with empty promisesof party games and speeches that do nothing. I I don’t come from international policy. I come with the desire to serve Portugal, with seriousness, independence and action ”.

António José Seguro added that Portugal wins “when it does not put all eggs in the same basket”. And it wants a country of “excellence where economic progress goes hand in hand with social justice, with safety and equal opportunities for everyone, where to be born poor is not a sentence and where to live with dignity does not depend on the bank account”.

It ensures being a candidate with “another vision of Portugal, progressive, unlike conservative candidacies already announced” – more precisely and Gouveia and Melo.

Without coming from international politics, also It does not come from “traditional politics”.

In a short self-presentation: “I know how to hear, I know how to respect all opinions, I know how to unite, I can decide, I can act and I am demanding with ethics in the exercise of public office.”

“I was born in the countryside. I live in the center, I know the real country. I know Europe. I know what is at stake and know how to defend Portugal firmly and respect. I don’t need to learn in office. I get ready,” he added.

Insurance announced the candidacy Without the support of the PS – who has not yet supported any candidate. Augusto Santos Silva is a possibility.