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If Kristin’s depression had struck before January 18, the admiral would probably be in the second round.
Henrique Gouveia e Melo it was given as in the 2026 presidential elections. This was a year ago, between the end of 2024 and the beginning of last year.
But we still needed to hear the admiral in reserve. I needed to know yours on several subjects. And, when that started to happen, he started to fall – and ended up in 4th place in the first round, he didn’t even make it to the second round.
But… What if the bad weather had appeared before January 18the day of the first round of the presidential elections? Gouveia e Melo would have passed to the second roundassures João Miguel Tavares.
The commentator does not consider that, if I had been on the ground (Leiria) in the post-depression Kristin, Gouveia e Melo would have given a different image of “the State and the Government” in the first days of the tragedy.
That image of “competence” which the then admiral transmitted during vaccination against COVID-19. He himself stated that “not just any soldier did that”.
This is because, continues João Miguel Tavares, the Government has shown that it lacks organization, knowledge and leadership capacity.
Paulo Ferreira added on Observador radio that Portugal does not have a culture of logistics, of organization. “It’s better to assume that and have low expectations.”
And the political expert also spoke about Gouveia e Melo: “In fact, it is no coincidence that, when There was a case that went well, a presidential candidate soon emerged from there of the Republic: Gouveia e Melo and vaccination”.
“It is clearly the exception: something that goes well. Everything organized. And then it comes out: ‘Well, this is the man who has to come and lead the country!’. Look, I was going to call him to state logisticsto solve a problem in Civil Protection, to organize… Come Gouveia e Melo and his team”, analyzed Paulo Ferreira.
