ANTONIO PEDRO SANTOS / LUSA
Augusto Santos Silva, former President of the Assembly of the Republic
Socialist Augusto Santos Silva will announce next Wednesday if he will be a candidate after “new reflection”-that António Vitorino ‘forced’ to do.
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The former resident of the Assembly of the Republic said on Friday that the decision of his socialist comrade not to apply to the presidential makes it possible to have a “New reflection” about your eventual candidacy.
Santos Silva brought to next Wednesday the public communication of his decision to apply or not, if everything goes normally and taking into account his own professional tasks.
Through a publication on social networks, the former president of the Assembly of the Republic said that “the three candidacies so far presented do not exhaust either the political space or the proposals and profiles that must be represented” and that, “by their political qualities”, it would be “welcome an candidacy of António Vitorino” to the presidential, a hypothesis that was the day away from himself.
“This is forced to a new reflection on the possible presidential candidacy staff, including the eventual presentation of my own,” he explained, adding that in the coming days he will consult the people whose opinion values.
This Thursday, former European Commissioner António Vitorino announced that he will not run for next year’s presidential elections, noting that his candidacy “could not gather consensus” so that he could be unique in his political area.
Following this announcement, the former presidential candidate Ana Gomes argued that the PS should support former socialist leader António José Seguro In the presidential presidential of next year to “federate left and democrats”, considering that another option “will be divisionist”.
About two weeks ago, there were several strong names that were present in-such as the former mayor of Lisbon and Minister of Culture João Soaresto former presidential chand Maria de Belém and the MEP Francisco Assis – who were present at the presentation of the candidacy of António José Seguro to the President of the Republic.
Also present were the President of Sedes (Association for Economic and Social Development), Álvaro Belezathe old MEO Carlos Zorrinho and the former Minister of Health Adalberto Campos Fernandes.
The former Secretary of State António Lacerda Salesthe current deputies of the PS Hugo Costa e Pedro do Carmothe former socialist parliamentarians Jamila Madeira, Pedro Coimbra e António Galamba It was other personalities of the socialist universe who were present.
