Jose Luis Carneiro discounts the number of supporters of Pedro Nuno Santos

PS leadership candidate José Luis Carneiro said today in Olhão, Faro district, that he believes he is right in his fight, refusing to feel humiliated by the amount of support that candidate Nuno Pedro Santos has.

“When we feel that we are right in our choices, we may even find ourselves alone in defending these options, because it is not the number of our support that confirms the cause of a cause, the cause of the ideal of a society and a country,” he said José Luis Carneiro on the sidelines of the ceremony. in which he participated as Minister of Internal Administration.

The candidate to replace Antonio Costa in the leadership of the PS emphasized that he does not want to talk about “issues of the internal life” of his party at the official ceremony.

José Luis Carneiro, considered to be from the moderate wing of the PS, presented his candidacy last week, and on Monday it was the turn of Pedro Nuno Santos, who has links to the more left wing, in a ceremony where he was accompanied by many supporters. , namely Francisco Assis, who is believed to have more right-wing internal tendencies.

The presentation was made by the Minister of Education Pedro Nuno Santos, the President of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities João Costa, the President of the Chamber of Portimão Luisa Salgueiro, the former Minister of the Interior Isilda Gomes Eduardo Cabrita, the former Secretaries of State Hugo Mendes and João Paulo Rebelo, the leader of the CS Miguel Costa Matos and his predecessor on this post by Maria Begoña.

Dozens of deputies were present at the national headquarters of the PS, among them bench vice-presidents Rui Lage, Carlos Pereira, constitutionalist Isabel Moreira and federal leaders of this party such as Hugo Costa (Santarem), João Portugal. (“Coimbra”), Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues (“Porto”), Luis Testa (“Portalegre”) and others.

Direct elections for António Costa’s successor to the PS are scheduled for December 15 and 16 – at the same time as the elections for delegates – and a congress is scheduled for January 6 and 7.

It was this morning that the Home Secretary was accompanied by the Education Secretary at the 2023 event to raise public awareness of seismic risk, called ‘A Terra Treme’.

“Besides the fact that I am here as a minister and not as an activist of the Socialist Party, I share a deep friendship and deep respect with José Luis Carneiro,” said João Costa, assuring that “no matter what happens, this deep friendship and respect will not to the least constrained.”

For his part, José Luis Carneiro guaranteed that the absence of such support does not cause discomfort and, “on the contrary”, that “one of the greatest pillars of the minister [da Educação] This is a cane,” he offered him.