Isidro de Morais Pereira
It would be the second military to enter the presidential race after criticism of Gouveia and Melo. Will be heard by the arrival.
“I confirm. I am pondering advancing with a candidacy. There is no fantasies here, ”he told Isidro Morais Pereira, Major General and television commentator.
“What leads me to ponder is a significant set of people and anonymous citizens who go to me on social networks and even personally. It’s not today, people with love tell me that they like my comments. Most say I should run. Lately there has been some insistence,” he explained.
And do not reject the arrival of the arrival: “I was not contacted, but if eventually the decision is to apply, I do not reject the support of any party. The parties are part of democracy and the arrival should not be viewed differently, ”justifies the general.“ All supports are welcome. ”
However, it will not have gone unnoticed in the eyes of the party. According to the, the Military will meet with the arrival in early July.
And the candidacy of his professional colleague does not prevent him, since he says, “it is not because there is another military to apply that I will not do it.”
After Gouveia and Melo, whom he nicknamed vain, his possible candidacy follows the same route. “If the achievements of the last three years have been used to serve as a springboard for other flights this denotes an excessive gesture,” he had shot.
Now your candidacy may be imminent, and mentions Ramalho Eanes as a reference. “Ramalho Eanes is a person I always identified with. It was the one who handed me the Official Sword. He is a person I estimate the way he was, because he was always a man who put others in front of him, just as I do – because I don’t know how to be otherwise. Its proximity has always been compatible with its position. It never forgot that it wore the uniform and president’s costume. ”