António Filipe argues that The position of the next president will be crucial “In the face of the Constitution and the values of April that it consecrates” and in the face “of the agenda of the social and democratic setback that is being promoted.”
Presidential candidate António Filipe said on Monday that his candidacy aims to unite the democrats who do not conform to “the fact that the right controls all organs of sovereignty” and was committed to the values of the Constitution.
In a speech at the presentation session of his candidacy, in In Lisbon, António Filipe stated that “before the candidacies already announced, many democrats rightly lamented the lack of a candidacy that would identify without reservation with the April values enshrined in the Constitution.”
“A candidacy capable of uniting democrats who do not conform to the fact that the right controls all the sovereignty organs, an application capable of uniting the Portuguese in the fight for an alternative to the state we arrived, to rescue hope and open horizons of the future. This candidacy was missing. PCP Secretary-General Paulo Raimundo and his predecessors Jerónimo de Sousa and Carlos Carvalhas.
The candidate stressed that the January 2026 presidential elections assume “particular importance” At a time when the right “controls all sovereignty organs,” it has a parliamentary majority to review the Constitution and have “unprecedented possibilities to determine the composition of other state organs.”
In this context, António Filipe argued that The position of the next president will be crucial “In the face of the Constitution and the values of April that it consecrates” and in the face “of the agenda of the social and democratic setback that is being promoted.”
“Here we are, here I am, to say that the defense of democracy and the Constitution does not admit gives off or dropout,” he said.
