This Monday, Minister Duarte Cordeiro expressed his support for the candidacy of Pedro Nuno Santos for the post of Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party, stressing the importance of having charismatic leaders in his party, such as Mário Soares or António Costa.
Duarte Cordeiro, president of the Federation of Urban Areas of Lisbon (FAUL) – the second largest of the Socialists after Porto – and who succeeded Pedro Nuno Santos in the JS leadership, took this position in a message he published. on the social network Instagram.
“Anyone who knows me knows that I am thoughtful and hope for the best for my party, but most of all for my country. That was enough to know Pedro Nuno Santos over the years that I knew him and to recognize his strength.” courage, charisma and conviction to consider him the best leader for our collective future and in the difficult times we will face,” he said.
The PS’s campaign manager in the last legislative elections, the current Minister of Environment and Climate Action, stressed the importance of his party having a charismatic leader in the March 10 legislative elections.
“For those who doubt the importance of strength and charisma, just think about the history of our party and the importance it had in leaders like Mario Soares or Antonio Costa. The political times in which we live and in which we will live require dialogue with society. and other political forces, without compromising our autonomy, our ideals, the capacity for inclusion and unity in the PS, the strength of conviction and the need for renewal,” he defended.
Duarte Cordeiro also wrote that Portugal needs an economic, industrial and green development project “that maintains a path towards increasing the value of incomes and pensions and normalizes and improves the functioning of the welfare state rather than destroying it.”
“Pedro Nuno Santos is the candidate best able to achieve all these goals,” he added.
Former Socialist minister Alberto Martins, as well as Isabel and João Soares, children of PS founder and first leader Mario Soares, also expressed support for the candidacy of Pedro Nuno Santos for the post of PS secretary general.
These three names were provided to Lusa by a source regarding the candidacy of Pedro Nuno Santos for the post of leadership of the PS, whose direct internal elections are scheduled for December 15 and 16, and the congress for the period from January 5 to 7.
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