PS meeting at the National Commission in Porto on June 3

PS President Carlos Cesar has convened a meeting of the National Commission, the party’s highest body between congresses, for June 3 in Porto, an official socialist source told Lusa on Tuesday.

This will be the first meeting of the national body of the PS after the public disagreement between Prime Minister António Costa and President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa regarding the inclusion of Minister of Infrastructure Joao Galamba in the government.

In a recent interview with the newspaper Público and Rádio Renascença, the former minister and current leader of the Socialists, José António Vieira da Silva, believes that more debate is needed in the PS’s national bodies.

Regarding the functioning of the socialist government with an absolute majority, Carlos Cesar also recently defended that António Costa should carry out a “refreshment” of his team in the long term, while former minister Alexandra Leitao even understood that the prime minister should introduce profound changes, making “reset”, i.e. restart.

After Pedro Nuno Santos left the executive, PS minority sensibility leader Daniel Adriano demanded that António Costa remove the remaining “presumptive candidates for party leader” from his government, alluding to ministers Fernando Medina. Ana Catarina Mendez and Mariana Vieira da Silva.

This week, in an article he signed in the Público newspaper, he defended the immediate departure of Minister João Galamba from the government.

The next meeting of the National Committee of the PS in Porto was scheduled for the next 27th, but was postponed so as not to coincide with the first of two days of the National Assembly of the Left Bloc.

The agenda of the next meeting of the supreme body between PS congresses includes “analysis of the political situation and issues of internal organization.”