Deputy announced his candidacy, but the party must still listen to activists and supporters. There is no official support for now.
Jorge Pinto this week who is a candidate for President of the Republic.
“With this candidacy I want to continue contributing so that Livre continues to be the party of concrete utopias. And there is so much we can do”, wrote the candidate in an internal message sent to the party’s members and supporters.
It’s the first time that a Livre activist runs for president of the Republic. To the third presidential election.
But, in this candidacy, there is something that doesn’t add up in a party founded and led by Rui Tavares – the man who suggested a left-wing agreement even before 2015, the year of the famous “contraption”; has repeated the idea of a united left and, just last year, said that it would try to reach agreements on the left – if the left had won a majority in the March 2024 legislative elections.
After the two Antónios – José Seguro and Filipe – and Catarina Martins, the left-wing voters are now more divided for the January election.
The PS supports António José Seguro, the PCP supports António Filipe, the BE supports Catarina Martins. Jorge Pinto’s candidacy, being supported by Livre, further disperses the left’s votes.
But, after all, the Livre may not even support Jorge Pinto.
In the letter sent to the activists, Jorge Pinto asks the Livre activists for their support. But the party will still ponder.
Livre’s management sent a letter to the members of its assembly and suggested support for the deputy, reports . But first, they must be consulted militants and supporters (just as Jorge Pinto himself prefers). Even though it is not a binding consultation.
Call him “presidential imbroglio” in Free. Livre’s support for Jorge Pinto is not yet official and the position of Ricardo Sá Fernandesformer member of the Livre Ethics committee: will support António José Seguro – because he is the only candidate on the left “who still has a chance”.
Sá Fernandes also said that Livre should have organized an internal debate before this announcement by Jorge Pinto.
But “the left is already divided and it was not Livre that came to divide it”assures Jorge Pinto, in .
António Filipe is calm. The PCP candidate for Belém remembers that everyone has the right to present themselves as a candidate. Furthermore, he doesn’t even know very well whether Jorge Pinto is from the left or from the political center.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, ZAP //
