“We cannot think about regaining the majority trust of the Portuguese just because we were better in moments in the past”, warned the president of the PS, Carlos César, this Saturday, March 28, on the second day of the XXV National Congress of the PS, which comes at a time, already mentioned by the party leader, José Luís Carneiro, at the beginning of the main meeting, as being “very difficult”, taking into account the electoral results of the May 2025 legislative elections.
Even so, as Carlos César maintained in the intervention confirming the socialist presidency, “The PS is the opposition party most supported by the Portuguese in the last local elections, confining the extreme right to a negligible representation in the local administration”.
To reinforce this idea of hope, César also recalled that, in the presidential elections, they supported, “at the appropriate time and in the appropriate manner, the candidate who presented himself from the democratic left, whose personal victory is also a victory for the democrats and a victory” for the socialists.
The idea of justifying the balance of legislative results with the results of local and presidential elections, in addition to being highlighted at the beginning of the Congress by José Luís Carneiro, had been noted, before Carlos César’s intervention, by Armando Mourisca, the leader of the Viseu District Federation of the PS, the host of the party’s main meeting.
In a room, in the Pavilhão Multiusos de Viseu, which has kept as many empty seats as occupied, Carlos César, in an attempt to reinforce the idea of effort that the PS must make, considered: “we will only have this trust [dos eleitores] if we prove in the present that we deserve it in the future. In a democracy, power is exercised on loan from voters; we have to prove our political solvency once again, that is, that we are worthy of this credit.”
So that the Government is “as little bad as possible”
Carlos César, in a long phase of intervention dedicated to the Government, combined victories announced by the Executive led by Luís Montenegro, “on the occasion of the last meeting of the European Council”, with socialist victories. With this objective, he cited the Prime Minister referring to “sustained economic growth and good budgetary performance in recent years”, which according to Carlos César were achieved “with the governments of the Socialist Party”.
“On different levels, but so relevant to all of us, this Government is slow to act or fails to act”, he accused, highlighting a reduction in “signs of a prominent focus on Education and professional qualifications”.
“The public health service is increasingly dissatisfied with a mishmash of contradictory measures”, to the same extent that “Culture is an ignored area”, continued Carlos César, remembering that “young people do not recognize themselves in public policies” and “Justice does not hurry or reform”.
“Companies or harmed citizens to whom the State promises compensation are waiting on endless waiting lists” and “taxation is a patchwork without a discernible direction other than that of the State coffers”, he described.
“Never in such a short time has so much been said and not fulfilled, and never in such a short time has so much been done with so many defects”, he stated.
With the accusation that “the Government we have continues to devote more attention to opposing the Socialist Party and flirting with the extreme right than to resolving each and every one of these problems that persist or intensify”, Carlos César considered that “the PS must continue to demonstrate that it wants to be part of the solutions and not just part of the criticism and denunciation”.
“As long as this is the Government and it cannot be another, our duty is to help make it as bad as possible”, he concluded
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