Jardim supports Rio to prevent them from making Portugal one of the ″ Venezuela of Europe ″
Former President of the Government of Madeira Alberto João Jardim offers support to Rui Rio’s candidacy for the leadership of the PSD to defeat a collaboration between socialists and communists and prevent the country from becoming “the Venezuela of Europe”.
“At this serious moment for Portugal and for the world in general”, says the former Madeiran leader in an opinion article published in the morning regional JM Madeira in which he talks about the reasons why he decided to vote Rui Rio as national president of the party in the coming internal years make PSD.
Jardim maintains that “the priority is to defeat the communist-socialist collaborationism that dreams of transforming Portugal into a Venezuela of Europe”
Explaining that “even removed from active politics, according to the time and calendar” he imposed on himself, he indicates that as a citizen he intervenes when he understands “to be a duty to the Madeiran people, and not to please anyone or the party [PSD]”, of which he has been a militant since its foundation.
The former president of the Regional Government points out that his personal positions continue to “provide enemies inside and outside Madeira, and even within the PSD itself”, noting that “now there are new episodes in the national PSD”.
Alberto João Jardim considers that “for the PSD, once again, to be able to remove Portugal from a new socialist swamp, it has to win as a reverend in the country”.
In his sense, Rui Rio “explains a good prime minister” because “in his democratic convictions, he was never attracted by the partycracy and by the games of interests, personal or of groups (such as Freemasonry)”.
“Hence Rui Rio does not subordinate the National Interest to successive, punctual and often useless partisan struggles”, nor “to lobbies of various natures, nor to people who are waiting for the PSD to leverage their respective ambitions or moves”, stands out .
Other reasons for the support for Rui Rio, who states that he is “in favor of” the autonomy and decentralization of Mainland Portugal “
“How is the time for there to be a prime minister who, with seriousness, takes on the great problems of our Autonomous Region that are unresolved”, he stresses.
The former social democrat insular leader, who has been in power for nearly four decades, is harshly critical of other leadership candidate Rui Rangel, noting that “it doesn’t take a Nobel Prize to understand the shift to the right that he and other suitors” .
And he adds that “even if you put all this right together, you will never get the necessary majority by yourself”.
Jardim still recalls the positions taken by Rangel in an electoral campaign for years, supporting the continued existence of the office of representative of the Republic and “displaying a great ambiguity in all the important issues still pending today” in Madeira
Alberto João Jardim also emphasizes that Rangel “rejected any understanding with the PS (even without Costa)”, in what he believes to be a “colonialist position, which prevents an indispensable constitutional review for Madeira.”.
“And, by radicalizing Portugal into two blocs, it tries to devastate the political center and the middle class,” he stressed, recalling that support for Rangel’s candidacy in Madeira is linked to “the nucleus linked to the Passos Coelho faction that caused internal fractures in the PSD / Madeira, which almost led the party to defeat “and whose recovery” is not yet complete “
Jardim concludes by appealing: “Don’t spoil it anymore, please!…”
The direct calls at the PSD are scheduled for December 4th and, next Saturday, the party’s National Council will meet, in Aveiro, to analyze the political situation and a request for advance Congress by district leaders and councilors (in Rangel supporters) from January to December 17-19.
Rio has been against the holding of direct elections given the proximity of the legislative ones – whose date has not yet been set -, but has not yet clarified whether it will go ahead with a new formal proposal for postponement, after the National Council rejected this idea at the last meeting in October, even before the ‘lead’ of the State Budget for 2022.