The PS Board and Policy Committee were approved by votes greater than 90%.

The National Commission of the PS approved this Saturday in Coimbra, with votes exceeding 90%, the proposal of Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos to create a National Secretariat and a single list vying for the post of the Political Commission of the Socialists.

Pedro Nuno Santos’ proposal for a National Secretariat, the party’s governing body, received 91.6% of the vote, according to official socialist sources.

The list of the PS Political Commission was approved with 92.4% of the vote – a list of 65 members resulting from an agreement between the team of Pedro Nuno Santos and his opponents in the Socialist leadership race José Luis Carneiro and Daniel. Adriano. According to this agreement, the Minister of the Interior appointed 35% of the members, and Daniel Adrian two.

The list of the Political Commission was presented to journalists, the first three being Alvaro Belesa, who supported Pedro Nuno Santos, and the President’s Secretary of State André Mos Caldas, who coordinated the proposal of José Luis Carneiro.

The Political Commission of the PS includes the President of the Assembly of the Republic Augusto Santos Silva, ministers such as Ana Catarina Mendes or Fernando Medina, the President of the Economic and Social Council Francisco Assis, the Mayor Ines de Medeiros or the former minister José António Vieira. da Silva.

João Soares, Jamila Madeira, José Manuel dos Santos, Manuel Pizarro and Maria Antonia Almeida Santos are also members of this body, which will soon approve the final version of the PS candidate lists for the next legislative elections.

Contrary to expectations, former minister and current Socialist MEP Pedro Silva Pereira is only among the deputies on the Political Committee. One of the new features is the presence on this body of Pedro Costa, President of the Junta de Campo de Ourique in Lisbon and son of the Prime Minister.