The socialist and former Minister of Health of António Guterres and José Sócrates, António Correia de Campos, did not spare Pedro Nuno Santos, after he asked for the existence of a single voice in the PS. The former president of the Economic and Social Council (CES) says that it is “evident” that the warning to the socialists who occupy the “media space” to have “respect for the party” and not feed internal “discord” is “a very unfortunate statement” and a “flagrant error” by the party general secretary. He puts it on par with Luís Montenegro’s “analogous error of criticizing the media out of time.”
“Threatening our troops before combat does not make them fight better,” warns the former Minister of Health in statements to Rádio Observador in the program Direto ao Assunto. He considers that Pedro Nuno Santos’ words are “regrettable” mainly because they were made as a public statement, considering that “this type of statements can never be” since they “seem like harsh criticism” of the party’s internal staff.
Correia de Campos: “The flagrant mistake of Pedro Nuno Santos”
Referring to the secretary general and the current prime minister, the socialist history states that both are “very qualified politicians, but still very young” and that “they make these serious mistakes.”
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“He couldn’t contain his excitement.”, says about Pedro Nuno Santos, adding that a “politician has to prepare and have nerves of steel and save words, using them with weight and measure.” “It was a necessary and useful statement to say within the internal scope of the PSAlthough there were leaks of information, but never a public statement, which constitutes an attack on free thought within the PS,” he points out.
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Regarding the State Budget proposal, Correia de Campos assumes that he would not have minded if the “IRC had dropped one more point”, but recognizes that there was “a great effort on the part of the PSD to bring it closer.” “This progress can hardly justify a rejection of the Budget“he admits.
“I believe that the agents within my party who have decision-making power Don’t think about making the budget unviableThat’s what makes this even stranger. “If they do not want to go beyond the limits of Brussels, it is because they do not want to make it unviable,” says the socialist, who does not believe that the PS will reject the State Budget proposal for 2025, as well as understanding that, given the development of the negotiations , “the country would not understand the rejection of the document by the PS.”
Source: Observadora
