António Pedro Santos / Lusa
José Luís Carneiro
Carneiro has 5 key areas where he wants to make agreements with the PSD: foreign and European policy, defense, justice, security and state organization.
José Luís Carneiro formalizes his candidacy for the leadership of the Socialist Party with a strategy centered on promoting “democratic consensus” and institutional pacts with the PSD.
Although it claims that the constitutional revision is not a priority, the current socialist deputy wants to start the mandate with concrete proposals of Understandings in five key areas Sovereignty: foreign and European policy, defense, justice, security and state organization.
In the motion of candidacy, Carneiro defends the need to “rethink the PS and its relationship with the country” and proposes to listen and give voice to people, still without a closed model – and may or may not Follow the format of general statesas Pedro Nuno Santos suggested in the past. Its approach is marked by a search for structured dialogue with the main opposition party, placing Luís Montenegro before a choice: agreements with the PS or approximations at arrival.
With the NATO summit about to impose new budgetary demands on defense, Carneiro proposes a “strategic state initiative” that converts this effort into economic, social and technological benefits. The European Commission has already authorized Portugal to reinforce this investment between 2025 and 2028 Without compromising the objectives of the deficit, opening margin for bolder decisions in this area.
José Luís Carneiro also resumes flags he defended in the previous race for the PS leadership in 2023, when he lost to Pedro Nuno Santos, namely the search for regime pacts with the PSD to Ensure stability and background reformsnote or.
The socialist candidate also defends a Electoral Reform at the municipal levelin order to create “more functional executives” and reinforce local “parliamentarism” – a measure that would not apply to the next local elections anymore.
In the economic area, the candidate returns to the model of the “right accounts” and focuses on combating poverty and inequalities. As for immigration, it presents only guiding lines, defending effective reception policies and the fight against illegal immigration.
