Candidates exchanged attacks during their respective campaign actions this weekend.
In the presidential race, João Cotrim de Figueiredo and António Filipe spoke this Saturday about housing, while Luís Marques Mendes, Gouveia e Melo and André Ventura exchanged accusations.
In Ponte de Lima, Gouveia e Melo questioned whether the Presidency would be “the reform of politicians who failed in their parties”.
For Marques Mendes, there is only one reason: “Gouveia e Melo specializes in, every other day, saying bad things about me and making personal attacks on me. I think it’s not very nice, but I understand. He’s going down in the polls and I’m going up in the polls.”
“And I will be in the Presidency, in matters of independence, as were Mário Soares, Jorge Sampaio, Cavaco Silva or Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa”, says the social democrat.
The legacies of former Presidents are in the mouths of the candidates. André Ventura tries to push Gouveia e Melo to the left because he prefers Mário Soares’ mandates.
“Whoever says that Mário Soares is his reference cannot be the right-wing candidate. Whoever says that being Indian or being Pakistani or Portuguese is the same thing cannot be the right-wing candidate.”
In Coimbra, in front of an audience of young law students, housing divided the Liberal Initiative candidate João Cotrim de Figueiredo from the communist António Filipe.
The first condemned the prison to “measures of the past”, while the second pointed to “excessive local accommodation”, golden visas and real estate speculation.
António José Seguro will find out this Sunday if the PS is with him. The party’s National Commission debates this Sunday the joint proposal by José Luís Carneiro and Carlos César to support the former general secretary of the PS.
