The educated Pedro Duarte emerges as a critic of Passos Coelho, the “prophet of doom”

There is recognition for what the former prime minister did, but here is a suggestion: be more positive when you speak.

Reactions to strong words from Pedro Passos Coelhoat the launch of a book held last week, when he spoke, for example, of those in politics.

Pedro Duarte are aware that Passos Coelho, from an emotional point of view, still has a strong relationship with the PSD’s grassroots militancy, and there is recognition for what he did as prime minister. “And he saved the country.”

But there are criticisms of his recent career: “He [Passos Coelho] had a particularly special week unhappy, I don’t hide it. I am not here to beat around the bush, I will not fail to express my disappointment” at the “encrypted” messages, because we are “forced to read between the lines”, he stated in .

The mayor of Porto wanted a more objective, more frontal speech, with nominations: “And for someone who criticizes fake politicians so much, it would be good for him to assume. What do you have to say to the country, let it say it. If you have something to point out to someone, name it. He is a brave man”.

“I don’t understand very well now that this is a bit of a hit and runwithout assuming, leaving it up to our imagination what he wants to say”, comments the former minister, who thinks that this style doesn’t even match Passos Coelho’s personality.

For Pedro Duarte, the fundamental, more relevant issue is another: at that event, Pedro Passos Coelho wanted to show complicity, or intimacy, .

“It would have been a good opportunity, with André Ventura and Passos Coelho in the room to score some points, but I didn’t want to do it. On the contrary.”

“The truth is that an attempt was made to generate an environment of complicity – and I know Pedro Passos Coelho well enough to know that It’s not out of naivety that these things happen”, he analyzed.

Regarding the content of his recent statements, among which Passos even spoke of one for Portugal, Pedro Duarte summarizes: “I don’t think he’s right”.

There is no reason for so much alarm: “Passos Coelho is made into a kind of prophet of doomin which, suddenly, you are so convinced of that, that it seems like you want that same misfortune”.

“The way he says things, how impetuous he is and how he insists on the message, is typical of that type of personality – who often allow themselves to be intoxicated by their self-esteem. They want reality to prove them right“, continues.

For the mayor of Porto, Passos Coelho sees himself in the PSD on an “emotional” level. But at a programmatic level, it is “difficult to understand where“.

And it arrived too late to warn about populisms: “He now seems to warn us about populism. I would say it’s already a little late. Maybe in 2011, 2012 or 2013, or 2015, more on the left side, that was the time to prevent and anticipate populism. Now it’s a little late. We already know the dangers of populism.”

Pedro Duarte leaves, at the end, a suggestion to the former president of the PSD: that present a “more optimistic perspective, ambitious and constructive.” A negative vision “clouds” thoughts.

Spokesperson, “coward”

After these direct words, one no longer wonders whether Pedro Duarte is the PSD spokesperson to attack Pedro Passos Coelho.

Ana Sá Lopes remembers that this was Pedro Duarte’s second “violent attack” on Passos Coelho. The commentator suggests that the mayor of Porto Alegre kept “the dossier” Passos Coelho, within the PSD.

Pedro Duarte is “educated, soft, calm.” In fact, he is one of the most polite politicians in Portugal, according to Ana. “It’s genuinely like that.”

But when he speaks, he says “very hard things”. Practically calls Passos Coelho a “coward”.

In the same program, Helena Pereira leaves a hypothesis: Pedro Duarte may have already started his journey to be the next leader of the PSD.