Outgoing Socialist secretary-general António Costa said on Tuesday the party was united and mobilized to go “to battle”, arguing they could overthrow the PS “for a second time” but the Portuguese knew that was the only thing that would guarantee stability.
“They can create instability in political life, they can create instability in the Assembly of the Republic, they can overthrow us a second time, but there is one thing that the Portuguese know: they are the ones who guarantee and guarantee stability in their days. And it is on PS and only on PS that they can count on stability in their lives,” Costa said.
The Prime Minister was also speaking at the Socialist Party’s Christmas dinner in Lisbon, where he sits next to the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, and the President of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Eurico Brillante Dias, while also sitting at the table as the new Socialist Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos.
At the beginning of his speech, Costa wanted to convey a “great greeting” to Pedro Nuno Santos, who received applause from the audience, wishing him “the greatest happiness and the greatest success.”
“I am honored to be the last of the third generation to pass on the testimony to the first of the fourth generation of leaders of the PS, a party that celebrates 50 years of continuity, continuity of that which is eternal but always adjustable. to the challenges of our time,” he emphasized.
For António Costa, “this has always been a great sign of the PS,” the party “of its time, responding to the problems that arose at that time.”
“This is so, it has been so and will continue to be so. And therefore, my dear Pedro Nuno, I am confident that, as has happened over the past 50 years, the entire party is united, mobilized, committed to moving towards the fight and victory in the next elections on March 10,” he assured.
In his speech, Costa wanted to thank and welcome those with whom he has worked “most closely in the last eight years”, starting by highlighting Eduardo Ferro Rodriguez and Augusto Santos, who, as Presidents of Parliament and second figures of the state, “respected, gave prestige to the PS and Portuguese democracy.”
On the other hand, the outgoing Secretary General of the PS also thanked the three parliamentary leaders of the PS since 2015, namely the current party president Carlos Cesar, as well as Ana Catarina Mendes and Eurico Brillante Díaz.
Costa said he was “greatly pleased” with the three parliamentary leaders, saying it was a “pleasure to work with” all of them and saying that, having begun his government career as Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, he still had time to this leader he was “barred from attending parliamentary group meetings so as not to jeopardize his autonomy.”
“We have always been able to meet and the autonomy of the parliamentary group has never been questioned, which is fortunate because the party needs strong, autonomous parliamentary groups with initiative, as was the case with the PS parliamentary group,” he said. .
Finally, Costa also thanked “the three people who maintained the connection between the government and the Assembly of the Republic” while he was Prime Minister, referring to his position as Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, saluting Ana Catarina Mendes, Duarte Cordeiro and Pedro Nuno. Santos, “who began a great political journey there.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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