The PSD’s Lisbon District considers which direction wants to exclude those who did not support it
A source from the PSD’s Lisbon district management told Lusa today that “there was no exclusion of any name”, having been approved as indications by the municipalities and the district organization, and which were highlighted on Wednesday at the CPN fair, as determined by the bylaws and the schedule approved by management.
“What is felt by the CPN is that they want to exclude those who did not support them”, says the same source.
As examples, they point out that supporters of Rui Rio such as Alexandre Simões or Américo Vitorino were also nominated in the Lisbon proposals for candidates for deputy for the January 30 legislative elections.
This position of the PSD / Lisbon leadership comes after the official source of the PSD leadership today told Lusa that there is “a coping strategy” on the part of some of the districts that have already submitted their proposed lists. ), giving examples such as Lisbon or Porto.
This strategy would go, according to the same source in the direction, for “keeping the same names” from two years ago, and that supported Paulo Rangel in the last direct lines, and even “excluding” the supporters of Rio.
In the case of the district of Lisbon, it was pointed out that the name of Ricardo Baptista Leite was not proposed – who two years ago appeared in the nominations of the PSD / Lisbon, but this time was not nominated by the Cascais council – but the names of supporting deputies from Paulo Rangel as Carlos Silva or Sandra Pereira, or from Rodrigo Gonçalves, who distanced himself from Rui Rio, of whom he was a supporter in the first election in 2018.
Rui Rio was re-elected on Saturday as president of the PSD, in a direct update disputed with MEP Paulo Rangel, which won by 52.4% of the votes.
In a statement already after his re-election, Rui Rio already referred that “competence and loyalty” would be criteria for drawing up the lists, “but assured that there would not be” an ethnic cleansing”.
Only at the meeting of the National Political Commission – which will take place on Tuesday, shortly before the National Council scheduled for Évora, at 9:00 pm – will there be definitive definitions of the direction on the proposals of the districts.
Two years ago, there were cases of districts that met more than once with management, a scenario that is unlikely to be repeated due to the tight schedule.
The National Council is scheduled for next Tuesday, with a second date for the 10th (if the list of deputies proposed by the leadership `chumbe` in the first attempt), with the objective of having the lists delivered to the various courts in 15 from December.
The deadline for handing over the list of deputies for the January 30 legislatives ends on December 20, one day after the end of the party’s Congress, which takes place between the 17th and the 19th in Lisbon.
According to the PSD statutes, it is incumbent upon the district political commissions to “propose candidacies to the Assembly of the Republic to the National Political Commission, after hearing the District Assemblies and Sections”.
The CPN is responsible for “approving the criteria for drawing up lists of deputies to the Assembly of the Republic, under the terms of the regulation”, and the National Council to approve the lists.
In addition to a timetable, a CPN also approved in relation to these November criteria, which assigns to the “president-elect” the responsibility of appointing the heads of list in each constituency, in a text prepared before the direct disputed on Saturday between Rui Rio and Paulo Rangel, which were won by the current president by 52.4% of the votes.
Virtually all the criteria included for the preparation of the 2019 lists are repeated, including “agreement with the strategic orientation of the National Political Commission and willingness to cooperate in a politically loyal and solidary manner”.