The Liberal Initiative is proposed for the rented The politics of 2022 as the fourth political force, with a parliamentary bench of eight deputies, in a political context in which the right has a new leader at the head of the PSD and in which the PS has an absolute majority. It is in Praia da Rocha, in Portimão, where the Liberals take the first step towards a new political year.
In an interview with Observador, Carlos Guimarães Pinto, who left the party’s leadership after the first election for the Assembly of the Republic and who became a deputy again, considers that the implantation of liberalism in Portugal is more important than the electoral results and claims that “other parties” can assume a “more liberal matrix”. More than good results, the IL would see this change as a “victory of the party”.
As for the new leader of the PSD, the deputy says that we have to wait to see if the reputation of being more liberal than Rui Rio is reflected in the party’s proposals. In any case, Carlos Guimarães Pinto argues that PSD and IL do not cancel each other out. “I don’t fit into this view that IL has to wait for PSD to have bad times to keep growing.”
Still on the right, he sees Chega as a party that “has nothing to offer the country” and is closer to the PCP than to the IL. In addition, in this interview, Guimarães Pinto criticizes Santos Silva’s management of the reprimands to Chega for considering that the President of the Assembly of the Republic seems to “want to promote” Belém’s candidacy “for” Ventura’s party —in fact, Carlos Guimarães Pinto has no doubts that PS and Chega win with the polarization of which the Socialists are accused.
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Source: Observadora
