António Filipe, the irreplaceable that will be very different from Marcelo

Communist presented a presidential candidacy that is “to take to the end” and is not limited to the context of the PCP.

The presidential candidate António Filipe He guaranteed on Monday that his candidacy “is to take to the end” and does not depend on third parties, and was open to consensus, refusing to be limited to “party borders”.

“This candidacy is to take to the end”guaranteed the former deputy to journalists during the presentation session of his presidential candidacy, in the voice of the Operário, in Lisbon.

Questioned if you admit to remove your application António Sampaio da Nóvoa Decide to advance with an application, António Filipe, supported by the PCP, replied that his candidacy “is irreplaceable” and its “importance” cannot be assumed by “any [das candidaturas] existing, much less the nonexistent ”.

“The candidates so far presented make this candidacy absolutely necessary and essential and we present the conviction that we deserve the support, confidence and commitment of all Portuguese citizens who want to change this state of affairs,” he said.

About counts on the support from other parties besides the PCPAntónio Filipe replied that his candidacy “does not address political parties, but to the Portuguese in general”, who “do not conform to the state to which the country has come and aspire to the alternative.”

Earlier, in his presentation speech, António Filipe considered that, in his “more than three decades” as a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, he was able to show that “it is possible to reconcile the uncompromising defense of their political positions and the loyal combat to different political positions, with a sense of balance and opening to the opening to consensus where all democrats can review themselves. ”

“This is the meaning of mine, our candidacy. It is the candidacy of a communistwith the confidence and support of their comrades, but rejects that they want to limit it to the borders of a party statement”He stressed.

António Filipe stated that his candidacy is “all who do not accept a path of degradation of democracy nor are they resigned to an increasingly unfair society.”

“It is the candidacy that constitutes the space of convergence of all those who review in the Constitution, regardless of their political and partisan options,” he said.

Enumerating the various goals From his candidacy, António Filipe assured that he will defend “the rights of all workers, nationals and immigrants” and combat “all discrimination due to gender, ethnicity, origin, sexuality, political, religious, economic, social or other nature”.

“It’s the candidacy of true, Which refuses the path of lies and demagogy and assumes the firmer fight against reactionary, fascist, xenophobic, racist, homophobic and discriminatory conceptions, ”he said.

In the end, questioned by journalists about what is the electoral That his candidacy intends to reach, António Filipe replied: “Let’s go to where the Portuguese take us.”

Democrat

António Filipe said his candidacy unite the Democrats that do not conform to “the fact that the right controls all the sovereignty organs” and was committed to the values of the Constitution.

The presidential candidate stated that, “in the face of candidacies already announced, many democrats rightly lamented the lack of an application that identified themselves without reservation with the April values consecrated in the Constitution ”.

“A candidacy capable of uniting the Democrats who do not conform to the fact that the right controls all organs of sovereigntya candidacy capable of uniting the Portuguese in the struggle for an alternative to the state we arrived, to rescue hope and open horizons of the future. This candidacy was missing, but there is no lack. Here we are, ”said António Filipe, receiving a foot applause from the audience.

The candidate stressed that the presidential elections January 2026 assume “Particular importance” At a time when the right “controls all organs of sovereignty,” 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 “in the face of the Constitution and the April values that it consecrates” and in the face of the agenda of the social and democratic setback that is being promoted ”will be crucial.

“Here we are, here I am, to say that the Defense of democracy and the Constitution does not admit discouragement or dropouts“He stressed.

The presidential candidate accused the current government to be “betting on taking a reactionary agenda It is affront to the Constitution, attack on workers’ rights, privatization of public services and what is left of the public business sector, the degradation of the NHS and the public school, privatization and assault on social security resources ”.

“It supports itself in growth of a fascinating, racist and xenophobic rightintensely promoted by economic power and wide media means and whose action is based on demagogy, na lie, in the promotion of hatred Against immigrants, the poor and the workers, ”he said.

António Filipe refused that the AD government is giving in to the “far-right agenda”, Contrasting that he is using his growth“ as a pretext and support base to carry on a reactionary agenda that is yours and that the Portuguese have known since the time of the Troika ”.

After making these criticisms, António Filipe argued that the affirmation of an alternative is required by “Unsustainable situation” which the country arrived.

The candidate argued that the next president cannot admit that “ to work each year ”, that there is a lack of teachers at school, that the “SNS be destroyed ”or that“ it is not possible in Portugal to find a housing Worthy ”at bearable prices.

Then he approached the issue of immigration, Considering that, in the present context, it needs to be regulated, but there can be no policy in “that rich foreigners have rights without duties and poor foreigners have duties without rights.”

Accusing the far right of hatred for immigrants with an “undisguised class brand”, António Filipe argued that the President of the Republic cannot agree with this kind of discourse and “much less with a governant action in which xenophobic and reactionary conceptions are taken as policies”.

“The President of the Republic, for his high responsibilities, must be an active agent in this civilizational clash for freedom and democracy,” he said.

Different from Marcelo

If elected, it intends to make “very different” from the current head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and “talk more about really important issues”.

António Filipe was asked if he intends to be the antithesis of MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA if it will be the next President of the Republic. “I wouldn’t say antithesis, but it would certainly be very different. Probably, I would talk much less about issues unimportant and try to talk more about really important issuesinstead of having an attitude in a certain way about the national political situation, ”replied the candidate.

António Filipe said he would have “a position of frankness, of frontality” so that the Portuguese “realize that they would not be facing a president -enacted president in political tactics, but in someone who, besides taking his mandate very seriously, is really concerned with serving the Portuguese people and democracy.”

“And, within your skills, to do everything you can to fulfill and enforce the Constitution, which is that the fundamental task of the President of the Republic,” he said.

Earlier, in his speech, António Filipe considered that the current President of the Republic is not only compromised “with the State of Things” in the country, but in the “exercise of his functions, he often had an active, even determining role, for Portuguese democracy to reach the state he has arrived.”

Then he listed the various tasks He considers that a President of the Republic must perform, stressing that he must “comply with and enforce the Constitution” and “cannot be limited to moving over the problems, oblivious to the concrete difficulties of people and the threats that are placed on Portugal and the world”.

“A candidacy for President of the Republic cannot be summed up to produce generalist and innocuous statementsespecially in the situation that the country goes through, because it means it wants to leave everything in it, ”he said, in an allusion to other presidential candidacies, which he did not specify.

At the presentation session of António Filipe’s candidacy were PCP militants, such as Secretary-General Paulo Raimundo, and his predecessors Jerónimo de Sousa and Carlos Carvalhas, as well as former presidential candidate João Ferreira, parliamentary leader, Paula Santos, or former deputy Bruno Dias and Duarte Alves.

There were also actress Maria João Luís, singers Vitorino and Janita Salome, editor Zeferino Coelho, economist Ricardo Reis, lawyer Carmo Afonso and former journalist Pedro Tadeu.