PSD/Lisbon leader points to Carlos Moedas. “PSD needs new times” – Observer
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Ângelo Pereira, PSD/Lisbon leader and councilor for Mobility Planning in the Lisbon municipality, has no doubts: Social Democrats need to get on the path and find new solutions for the future. A future that, he suggests, can be written with two words and twelve letters: Carlos Moedas.
Challenged to comment on the party’s internal life and the upcoming leadership race, Ângelo Pereira, who presides over one of the main PSD structures, an election instrumental in the election of any future party leader, preferred not to comment on the merits and demerits of names that are being aired as candidates, limiting themselves to saying: “PSD needs ‘new times’“.
Now, ‘Novos Tempos’ was precisely the slogan of Carlos Moedas in the last municipal governments. Ânge Pereira was part of this sixth on the list) and became one of the councilors with greater political weight in the municipal executive, with the portfolios of Mobility, Transport, Green Structure, Sports, Safety and Relief, Information Systems and Urban Hygiene.
A critic of Rui Rio, Ângelo Pereira was one of Miguel Pinto Luz’s great supporters in the first round of the 2020 Guidelines declarations. With the succession of Luís Montenegro, Rui Rio, the leader, ended up by coincidence2 Montenegro.
In the last direct matches, the now councilor sided with Paulo Rangel against Rio. Range never committed himself to formal support for Moedas, and although these three accepted the challenge (Pinto Luz, Montenegro and protagonist) “PSD needs ‘new times’“, repeats.
The Observer knows that Ângelo Pereira is not the only one among the top leaders of the PSD to think the same. In recent weeks the traumatic result, since the laws, Carlos Moedas has received to accept and calls for it to move forward.
Ângelo Pereira’s statements are not the day some districts of the PSD are meeting in a Leiria restaurant to try to find a joint position on the party’s calendar. The Lisbon district leader did not go, but due to a manifest unavailability of time.
Carlos Moedas has everything that the other most talked about names for the leadership of the PSD don’t: plenty of media stage, electoral victories in his curriculum and a general recognition of the party. On the election night itself, he showed up at the hotel where Rui Rio was staying, journalists jumped like springs, but any kind of speculation and jury loyalty to the Lisbon City Council.
Here, there will be nothing, Hence the Observer knows. Carlos Moedas is not continuous to think that as mayor of Lisbon. Anyone who wants to see them enter the race disagrees and remembers the precedent of Jorge SampaioThat he was leader of the PS when he decided to run for Lisbon (and he won) and that he left for the Presidency of the Republic.
Furthermore, with the existing calendar — the legislature will last approximately four years and seven months — Carlos Moedas would have opportunity Everything that has been informed of the first list of candidates to apply for is mandatory.