The PS will meet with the National Political Commission (NCP) on Thursday to discuss the results of Sunday’s legislative elections.
“The Secretary General of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, has scheduled a meeting of the Political Commission for Thursday, March 21, at 21:00 at the national headquarters of the PS, in Largo do Rato No. 2. The only point on the Procedure is an analysis of the political situation,” the party said in a statement.
An official socialist source told Lusa that the Secretariat, the executive body of the CPN, would meet first, next Monday, the 18th. Next Saturday, the 23rd, the National Commission, the highest advisory body between the Congresses, will meet, he said. same source.
According to preliminary results published by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, excluding emigrant circles, the Democratic Alliance (AD), operating on the mainland and the Azores, elected 76 deputies.
If we add to these results the three elected representatives obtained in Madeira by the PSD and SDS-PP, who ran together in this region, without the PPM, we get a total of 79 mandates – 77 from the PSD and 2 from the SDS-PP.
On Sunday, the PS elected 77 deputies out of 230. According to the round-robin analysis, the Socialists won only in Lisbon, Coimbra, Castelo Branco and Setúbal.
On election night, IPS Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos admitted defeat to the right-wing coalition, expecting that he would not interfere with the formation of this executive, and declared that he would lead the opposition and that he would renew his party.
Despite these results, the PS general secretary said his party was “strong, united and united”, promised to renew it and expressed confidence that the opposition’s strategy would not be internally questioned.
Pedro Nuno Santos has suggested that he will not prevent the formation of an AD minority government since he does not have an alternative majority to represent in parliament and therefore will not vote for any proposal to reject this executive body.
However, this decoupled the government formation plan from the issue of ensuring the viability of fundamental policy instruments such as the state budget. When asked whether he could make the budgets viable, he warned that he would resist any pressure that had “already begun.”
“The PS will lead the opposition. She will not leave her opposition to Chega and Andre Ventura. The right or AD don’t expect the PS to govern because we are not the ones who will support them. And there will be no division in the PS,” he said. But Pedro Nuno Santos went even further:
“The time for tactics in politics is over, for us and for me,” was a response that appeared to be an indirect criticism of outgoing Prime Minister António Costa.
Regarding Chega’s electoral growth, Pedro Nuno Santos believes that the far right has “a very significant growth that cannot be ignored.” However, in his opinion, “18.1% of Portuguese voters are not racist or xenophobic.”
Author: morning Post This Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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