Santos Silva confident of “excellent result” PS

PS activist Augusto Santos Silva on Tuesday expressed confidence in the PS’s “excellent result” in the early elections, given that more and more people “understand the great injustice” of this political crisis and that the party is united.

I have “great confidence that the PS will achieve good results in this process that is about to begin, and will achieve an excellent result in the elections on March 10,” Santos Silva said in his speech at the Christmas dinner of the PS parliamentary group. , in Lisbon.

The President of Parliament also noted that the Socialists are “united, united and determined to win the next elections” and said that “more and more Portuguese men and women” understand “the enormous injustice that this political crisis means in terms of the PS “

“This is a political crisis that the PS did not create, to which the PS did not contribute anything and which interrupted the work that was carried out under all the conditions of normal democratic conditions,” he said, believing that “more and more people” who understand the “huge injustice ” and “react accordingly in the next election.”

On the other hand, Santos Silva also expressed confidence in the good result of the PS, emphasizing that “the Portuguese know that the only effective vote is to safely counteract any chance that the Portuguese government will become directly or indirectly dependent on extreme forces.” right,” is a vote for the socialists.

“Today the center right across Europe is hostage to these forces. Just think about what is happening in Italy, Sweden and Finland, as well as in several communities in our neighboring Spain, and look at what happened in the Azores and the result: instability, social regression, financial disaster,” he said .

Santos Silva also said that the third reason for the confidence in the positive results, and “even more important,” is that the PS is “working with obvious results,” highlighting that the school dropout rate has also been halved. both unemployment and balance of government accounts were achieved.

“In this political cycle, the Portuguese economy has for the first time systematically moved closer to the European average. This work has now been interrupted for reasons beyond our control, but this work must be resumed and continued,” he said.

According to Santos Silva, “only PS combines a strong belief in the need for economic growth to combat inequality and promote equality.”

“This link between growth and greater equality makes the PS unique in the Portuguese political spectrum and responds not only to the needs but also to the desires of the Portuguese,” he stressed.

In the internal PS leadership elections, Augusto Santos Silva supported candidate and incumbent Interior Minister José Luis Carneiro, who was defeated by Pedro Nuno Santos over the weekend.