Rubine Berardo, former PSD deputy
“There is a platform of understanding partnership between the PSD and the arrival, which rehearses successfully.” Words of a former deputy who paraded from the PSD days after 20 years of militancy.
With great surprise, Rubina Berardo This week he announced his departure from the PSD after 20 years of militancy, and did not do so without leaving strong criticism of the party leadership, which he accuses of giving in to the far right and failing in political transparency.
In an interview with, this Thursday, the former deputy accuses Oo PSD of “opening the doors” at arrivalbreaking the commitment since always assumed of political removal from André Ventura – figure that Montenegro, says, is trying to “domesticate”.
“The truth is that we see, through what has happened to the purposeful confusion between the themes of immigration and the law of nationality, that this ‘It’s not no’ no longer exists and that there is a platform of understanding, which is successfully rehearsing Partnership between PSD and arrives. And from the moment this ‘is not no’ is broken, for me a party is also broken, ”he explains.
“There is clearly that argument – and I think in this case it fits like a glove – that If you can eat the crocodile, we cannot complain after being eaten by the crocodile itself“, Shifts, when asked about the validity of ‘is not no’ in the face of almost million and a half voters who voted for the last legislative elections.
And Berardo, asked if he thinks the “crocodile” will really “eat” his former party, replies that yes: “Between the original and the copy, the electorate chooses the original, even another original in the far right that has a” freedom of action “that a democratic social party should not have, as a party within the history that has within the Portuguese democratic functioning,” he said.
“It is not opening the door to the far right that one can tame this extreme right. It is not possible to domesticate. It is strange this pure electoralism, this pure collage to the far right, ”he says.
The former deputy did not stop criticism of Luís Montenegro’s performance in the case, that the Prime Minister “Want to sweep under the rug”believes, comparing what is happening on the continent with what was seen in Madeira, in the social democratic government of Miguel Albuquerque.
Rubina Berardo left the PSD six days ago, arguing that the party’s “identity anchor” “ceased to exist” in an opinion article no. Accuses the current PSD to compact the far right “riding populism and confusing immigration policy with the law of nationality ”and“ inciting divergences ”between social groups.
