Lusa says Marcelo’s “hands are tied in the face of a divided right.”

Despite the “tremendous wiggle room” given to the President of the Republic regarding the government, BE founder Francisco Luca believes that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is now “hands tied in front of a divided right”.

In an interview with Lusa about two months before the BE National Convention, the former leader of the bloc refers to the “couple between António Costa and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa”, which worked “for the benefit of both” to an absolute majority, since then this opened a “new phase” in relations between two sovereign bodies.

“Marcel Rebelo de Sousa has been given a huge amount of room to maneuver with the government. His hands are tied in front of the right wing, which is fragmented and structurally fragmented and which more and more easily accepts the political themes of the program of social aggression”, anxiety.

Since “the absolute majority made instability the absolute rule of government”, in Francisco Luz’s analysis, “the unpredictability, the incapacity, the additional cost of the big structural problems that are now becoming explosive” gave “one more wiggle room for interference to the president, which he used and which he confirmed “.

“It is clear that the president knows that there is no political alternative to the right. He knows this, he said this, and by saying this, the pit of lack of a political alternative to the right is further deepened,” he warns.

Whether Marcelo Rebelo de Souza expects Montenegro to be replaced by Passos Coelho or someone else, time will tell, but according to the former leader of the bloc, the president of the republic has a “conviction.”

“In the current configuration, with the loss of an absolute majority reasonably confirmed by all indicators of public opinion, the right-wing alternative will have a huge price to ally with the extreme right either through the Liberal Initiative, or Chega, or both at the same time, no matter how they turn their backs, which “something that on election night might disappear in a happy reunion,” he foresees.

For Luz, “this price is very high” as it represents “a restructuring of Portugal’s political life and, above all, its law, from which there is no return.”

“The question that can be asked is whether the president can do something about it, and apparently cannot,” he admits.

For the founder of BE, “it is quite clear that Montenegro wants an alliance” with Chegoy, although he cannot announce it now to keep him “in reserve because he considers it inevitable”.

“This has a political cost to him because a government with André Ventura is a problematic government, not least because Chega is a selfish party, and so having several ministries with the same minister would be quite interesting, although not quite impossible. given the monumental will of this political leader,” he jokes.

However, the PS also “benefits from this situation”, according to Luz, because it introduces “a ghost, moreover, as visible, as riotous and as flashy as Andre Ventura” to cry out: “Vote for us, even if you hate us, because they are worse than anything you have ever seen.”

“I think it’s a strategy, even with some meanness and a lack of political perspective, because she doesn’t understand what Chega is. Chega represents a part of Portuguese society, it is resentment and instrumentalization of fears in Portuguese society”, he laments.

For blogger Chega, “represents not only a plethora of lies, not only a cataloging of hatred in the social network in which it is and will continue to thrive”, but also something more: “this is the people, this is part of the people, the desperate people.”