Carlos César, asked whether Duarte Cordeiro’s refusal to join the party’s highest body between congresses meant a first shadow of opposition to José Luís Carneiro’s leadership, chose to focus on the plurality of internal opinions. The statement was has margin of the first meeting of the PS National Commission.
“This leadership continues as it began, that is, it was elected with a large majority of votes in the Socialist Party and naturally, as it was not unanimous, there are people who still do not fully associate themselves with their way of being and being”, highlighted the PS president, adding that “this is natural in the party”.
“The only thing I fear in the Socialist Party is 100% votes”, he launched. With an assessment of the results of the XXV PS Congress, which took place at the end of March in Viseu, now reaffirmed at the National Commission meeting, Carlos César highlighted a “strong unity that today typifies life in the PS”, without this harming, he highlighted, the diversity that accompanies socialists “precisely 53 years ago.”
The socialist president stated that the party “is in a position to pursue with courage what it has sought to express to the Portuguese”. He further assured that “and It is possible to oppose without always saying no and without resorting to shouting”.
“It is possible to be a good opposition and be recognized by the Portuguese as a party capable of making proposals, capable of saying how it should not be done, but also how it should be done.“, he continued.
The socialist, adding that he is vigilant in the face of “government movements, like those we saw in the case of [lei da] nationality, such as those we are seeing in the case of labor counter-reform, such as those predicted in the case of constitutional review, or even in areas where we suspect that the Government may also make inroads that will harm the interests and rights of the Portuguese, as is the case with the pension system”.
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