Ferro Rodrigues supports Carneiro, Adalberto supports insurance – and criticizes PS’s “elites”

Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues praises the deputy’s “courage and determination”. Adalberto Campos Fernandes does not believe in predestined.

The former socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues declared its support to the only candidate for the PS secretary-general, José Luís Carneiroand appealed to the militants so that in the next internal elections show “their trust and unity.”

In a note sent to the Lusa Agency, the former President of the Assembly of the Republic states that “José Luís Carneiro had the courage e determination to move forward ”with a candidacy for the leadership of the PS.

“As ancient secretary-general also elected in very difficult and challenging circumstances, I want to leave José Luís Carneiro a word of support. And an appeal for the PS militants to express through their vote their vote trust e unit”, says.

Deputy José Luís Carneiro is a single candidate for direct elections for PS secretary-general, scheduled for June 27 and 28 to choose Pedro Nuno Santos’s successor, who resigned after the legislature.

Adalberto, safe, predestined

Still within the PS, but in relation to the presidential elections, Adalberto Campos Fernandes announced that support the candidacy of António José Seguro.

The former Minister of Health is justified in: “He is a man who does not deny the system, made his political life within the system, so It is not a outsider that comes with the purpose of purifying the systemthe system renovates inside and renovated with people with characteristics of seriousness and honesty, as is its case. He is a man who has been away from active political life in a gesture of great detachment. ”

For the former minister, the insurance application does not depend on the PS But he still believes that the socialists will support the former secretary general: “I do not believe in predestined, nor in castes, nor in owners of truth and knowledge. The parties are not owned by the votes, much less the leaders are the owners of the popular vote.”

“If you have the support of your party always, of course it is an advantage that helps mobilize this entire sector of Portuguese society that is reviewed in a space of moderation, dialogue. If not possible, that’s not why your application will be diminished, but I believe that at the end of this process common sense will prevail and PS will support António José Seguro“He said.

Safe There is no speech “scholarly As some would like to have ”but“Perhaps have the speech that the people understand And that the people want to hear, ”described Adalberto Campos Fernandes.

The socialist left criticism internal, namely to the “elites” do PS: “The elites (who criticize insurance) have brought the country so far delivered to the hands of confrontation, radicalism on the left and right. These people have little authority To come to talk about António José Seguro’s legitimacy to occupy a space that is a natural and traditional space. ”

Adalberto Campos Fernandes thinks that, in this, the party “needs to find itself with the space of moderation, at a time when confrontation and aggressiveness in society is so strong.”