Rodrigo Antunes / LUSA
The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, António José Seguro
The “cuckoo clock” of politics came back the same: predictable, monotonous speech, perhaps boring – but you know what will emerge from there.
Antonio José Insurance was interviewed, for the first time, since the PS announced its support for his candidacy for president of the Republic.
The candidate for Belém assured that, despite the support of the party he already led, his candidacy is “supra-partisan”. He thanked the PS but his direction goes beyond a party.
And there are people linked to right that could lean this way: supporting António José Seguro in the elections in January.
Bruno Vieira Amaral listened to a long interview. “And, since the interviewee was safe, it seemed even longer” – this is because the former secretary general of the PS continues predictable, monotonous, perhaps boring: “It doesn’t inspire anyone, it doesn’t arouse passions.”
The radio commentator left a curious comparison: Insurance can be compared to… geology.
Why is it reliable: “In the midst of that absolute monotony, it’s like those geological formations: they’re not particularly spectacular, but they resist, they’re there. Almost forever. They’re predictable. They don’t make anyone fall in love, but they are predictable.”
And, returning to Antonio José Seguro, this predictability “pleases a certain right, to the conservative that we have in us.”
Because, even though he had been away from political and public life for practically 10 years, when he returned, Seguro “was exactly the same”, highlighted Bruno Vieira Amaral. Even in the hairstyle and the suits.
António José Seguro is, in Portuguese politics, the “cuckoo clock”. It is the “finished product of an advanced democracy: predictable, monotonous, but reliable”, reinforced the political commentator.
