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José Luís Carneiro Elected Secretary-General of PS
José Luís Carneiro got more than 95% of the votes, with abstention greater than 50%. He wants to be opposed to a “threatening” government.
José Luís Carneiro It’s the new Secretary-General of the Socialist Party (PS). He was elected PS leader on Saturday, which he ran for without opponents.
In the last update of results from the direct elections of the PS, at a time when 92% of the votes were cleared, Carneiro had fence 95,4% of the votes, being 48,3% The participation rate.
Of the 17.1 thousand voters who participated in this electoral act, 16,300 voted in the former Minister of Internal Affairs.
On Friday, the PS militants voted 15 of the party’s 21 federations. On Saturday, the socialists of the remaining six district were on the polls: Azores, Algarve, Braga, Coimbra, Porto and Viseu.
The new secretary general of the PS took office with “honor e responsibility” and promised a party of “Values and from principles”, believing that socialist ideas “are able to continue to be majority in the country”
“This is the first time I speak to you as the leader of the Socialist Party. Confidence in me deposited by my comrades is an honor and responsibility,” said José Luís Carneiro in the first intervention after the right to which he was a single candidate.
The new PS leader, who follows Pedro Nuno Santos, said: “The PS that, from today, I have the honor of leading is a party of values and principles. We have a past that prides us and a future will that unites us,” he said.
“A party that radically defends the Rule of Law, Unconformed and Reformist. Disagreeing with injustice, inequality and poverty and delay in many factors that make our economy. A party open to society and available to discuss and propose new policies. Deep down, a constructable party, ”he continued.
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José Luís Carneiro assured that the PS will make a way “No precipitation, no tactical temptation and without excessively concentrating on conjunctural issues. ”
Criticized the “many parties who have the temptation to give in to ‘policy-special’, to the vertigo of the moment and to seek individual feedism ”.
Government e He arrives They were not forgotten in the speech: “They make hasty decisions, explore fears and fearsinflame the emotions, despise the necessary solidity the conception, execution and evaluation of good public policies. Always walk in search of Immediate benefits. These politicians undermine our social cohesion, take us as society the future we deserve. ”
With the new PS leader, the posture will be different: “Wait for me a different posture. I try to be a person weighted. I try to be part of the construction of better paths for the country. I have said that it is necessary to hear more and give more voice to society. ”
Guaranteed that it will be opposed to a government that has failed, according to the deputy: “It seems that they want to weaken the social state, it seems that they want to open the way to business with social functionswhich abdicates a solid economic policy, which does not protect research to science, which devalues innovation, ignores culture, confuses state reform with the weakening of the state. The PS will use all inspection instruments to oppose wrong, unfair or ineffective measures. ”
Unit
In the afternoon, when he went to vote in Baião, he considered that the mobilization of the militants has been a sign of the party’s unity.
“There is a large unit From the party in its mobilization to legitimize my leadership, not only in the way they are participating, but also because the votes have been very significant, ”he said in statements to Lusa.
He also noted that in all federations the support is always above 90% of support manifestations, which is very significant in itself, ”he said.
Municipal convention
The new socialist leader, José Luís Carneiro, announced that the PS will perform a Municipal convention For candidates to be linked to the values of freedom, equality and solidarity, promising candidacies with principles of integrity and transparency.
“In the coming months, the political country will be focused on municipal elections. It was as a mayor that I started my political life. It is in the local democratic power that the values of freedom, equality and justice feel the most,” he said.
José Luís Carneiro announced that “At the end of August, early September”the PS will “hold a municipal convention” for “candidates to assume their Binding to the values of freedom, equality and solidarity”.
“Your candidacies will obey principles of integrity, transparency and accountability. I believe that voters, in their lands, villages and cities, will choose the projects of progress and defeat populist and conservative projects,” he said.
In turn, PS President Carlos César will summon the party’s National Commission for next Saturday, July 5, to approve changes to the PS’s national secretariat, the executive management body of this political force.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will receive in hearing, on Tuesday, at 15:00, at the Palace of Belém, the new PS Secretary-General, José Luís Carneiro.
José Luís Carneiro, among other functions, was Mayor of Baião, Minister of Internal Affairs and Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities in socialist executives led by António Costa.
