Socialist Party general secretary candidate Pedro Nuno Santos today rejected the need to attack his opponents in the socialist leadership race as a way to distinguish himself, insisting the focus was on “fighting the right”.
At a meeting with socialist women at the PS headquarters in Lisbon, Pedro Nuno Santos began by saying that the campaign for direct elections on the 15th and 16th is internal, but its focus “has been and will be the fight for the right and the defense of the country.”
“This is always our goal and we do not need to distinguish ourselves from our comrades who are also candidates for the post of General Secretary of the Socialist Party, we do not need to attack them in order to show a different way that we should be in politics. “, defended himself.
Former minister and deputy Pedro Nuno Santos continued by saying he has “great respect” for Jose Luis Carneiro and Daniel Adrian, who are competing with him for the leadership of the PS, and expressed a desire to work with both of them after the elections.
“When we talk about the country, the country we want to have, when we talk about the struggle and how we see the struggle of the right, we are obviously also defending a way of life in political life, and that is more than enough. In fact, this is because this is where we must distinguish ourselves internally, and not in direct combat with my comrades,” he emphasized.
In his speech, which lasted about twenty minutes, Pedro Nuno Santos also said that in Portugal “we often drag our feet,” citing the construction of the new Lisbon airport as an example.
“There’s always a good reason to do another study, another commission, another task force, but what we really need is a decision now. And this is what will also distinguish us from the right over time,” he believes.
For Pedro Nuno Santos, the airport case “is a paradigm of this”: “it takes 50 years to make a decision on the airport, and after the report of the independent technical committee, the PSD can tell us that it will organize another work.” group,” he criticized.
The Socialist leader lamented that the country is “systematically leaving decisions for later” and “delaying dreams,” including “the dream of living in a country where there is gender equality,” he told an audience of mostly women.
However, during this intervention, opponent José Luis Carneiro was also at the party headquarters, in another room, where a few minutes later he spoke to journalists to present the housing measures.???????
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal

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