PSD Pedro Rodrigues accuses management and Rui Rio of “collective disorientation” – Portugal
PSD deputy Pedro Rodrigues reacted today to the letter sent by the party’s Permanent Commission considering its content little “committed to the truth”, and accusing the leadership and the president of “collective disorientation”.
In a post on his official Facebook social network account, Pedro Rodrigues, former JSD leader, argues that the “positions that the party’s leadership has in the past and, in particular, its president, reveal a collective disorientation” that leaves him “worried worried”.
“The letter today channeled to militants with a narrative little committed to the truth, the profound disrespect caused by those who think differently and the absolutely unacceptable pressures made on the President of the Republic mean a path that the PSD quickly has as an inverter”, the message reads.
Pedro Rodrigues, who supports Paulo Rangel in the direct of the party that will take place on December 4th, considers that the “obsession that the leadership of the party revealed in suspension as a previous internal marked by itself” shows a “manifested fear in facing the opinion of the “e” militants would mean the loss of the party’s opportunity to develop a healthy internal discussion that allows for party unity and the strengthening of a galvanizing alternative for Portugal.”
The deputy also indicates that “no one in the PSD asked the National Direction to make a complete appointment for the party’s leadership”, and these were “marked by the National Council at the request and in the data proposed by the direction and its president”, Rui Rio.
“The moment we are living in demands that the party’s leadership and its president show common sense and serenity and not walk in the direction of denying the reality that can lead us to a process similar to what, unfortunately, is being experienced in the CDS”, he stresses .
Pedro Rodrigues thus defends that the “PSD needs to quickly conclude its leadership choice process, define its candidate for prime minister” and its electoral program, “without expedients and without secretarial maneuvers”.
“So that we present ourselves to the Portuguese with a credible alternative capable of transforming Portugal and offering hope to the most dynamic sectors of Portuguese society, to the middle class suffocated by the tax burden and to young people who do not offer solutions for their future”, he says.
According to the deputy, “this is the only way” for those who “put Portugal first”.
Pedro Rodrigues supported Rui Rio, in 2018, having been coordinator of the social-democratic caucus on the Parliament’s Committee on Labor and Social Security.
However, in May 2020, he announced his resignation from that position, criticizing Rui Rio for “not meeting and properly involving the parliamentary group” and invoking a “lack of confidence” on his part.
The PSD Permanent Commission today added a letter to the party’s militants in which it considers that the “anticipation of internal updates” is “totally inappropriate”, arguing that the PSD must be “united” in the fight against “real adversaries”.
In the letter, the hard core of the party’s leadership defends that the next legislative changes are an “excellent opportunity for the PSD to take the good results from the local authorities and gain revision”, allowing the replacement of “a totally left-wing government by another one more moderate “, led by the party.
“For this, in the name of the national interest and of our own party, we have to be united and totally focused on fighting our opponents”, he says.
The party’s National Directorate emphasizes that, “in view of this reality”, the anticipation of the party’s rights “for a time” when “everyone” must be “concentrated in the legislative” is “totally out of step with the circumstances the country is facing”. live and the goals that the PSD must pursue”.
“The Portuguese originating from the PSD a clear and credible alternative to the PS. Not to generate a PSD facing an internal dispute, while the PS and the government make their campaign disappear, taking advantage of our electoral divisions”, points out the Permanent Commission.
The direct calls of the PSD take place on December 4th, and the current president of the party, Rui Rio, and the MEP Paulo Rangel are presented as candidates.
find it out Like
Issues of the Day
Related articles