PSD and IL increasingly united, CDs on its way to being the PEV

Social democrats and liberals compete together in various parts of the country, in the municipalities. It is a problem for the CDS.

The first public signs emerged in early June, when PSD e Il joined In Vila Franca de Xira and formed the coalition, towards this year’s municipal elections.

Two weeks later, it is a wide coalition on the right in several municipalities, including Porto: PSD, CDs and Il together. Liberals will only be with social democrats without the CDS, in Santo Tirso, Montijo, Santa Comba Dão and Vizela.

The meetings continued, and this Sunday, the liberal initiative announced 14 more coalitions with PSD and/or CDs. In Sintra, Gondomar and Albergaria-a-Velha, PSD and IL follow together-but without the CDs.

The next day, Monday, Nuno Melo He spoke at the beginning of the parliamentary days of PSD/CDS-PP, in Évora.

Without naming this approach between PSD and IL, he said: “When there is no lack of those who Speculate about the entry of new members to this clubFrom this I know: I know that AD is an experienced formula, with results, that has been exercised in the trust and loyalty that has been around for many years, whenever they joined. Already with different formulas, I don’t know how it will be. ”

This inclusion of liberals in the PSD lists for municipalities is “irritating” For the CDS, describes Rui Pedro Antunes.

“This has been a problem. Nuno Melo speaks of speculation; this It is not speculation, it is really confirmation: The PSD wants IL in several municipalities. I don’t know if Nuno Melo is in denial: it is unavoidable for the PSD to try agreements with IL, ”says the commentator on the radio.

Rui highlights the case of Sintra: CDS supposedly would be in the right coalition but left because I knew, through social communicationthat IL was also integrated into the lists. It is a “Difficult cauldron”, continues.

In the context of presidential elections (Marques Mendes has the support of the PSD but not the CDS, for now) Rui Pedro Antunes takes the opportunity to say that The CDS has become “a kind of green (PEV) of the PSDbut insists on waiting for another presidential candidate.