Precisely one year and two days ago, on the stage of the PS Congress in Portimão, the socialist leader gave Marta Temido her membership card. The Socialists broke into applause to consecrate the Minister of Health who had been in the eye of the hurricane of the entire pandemic and António Costa himself, with more or less irony, told the Observer that Feared could also become a figurehead for the party, in a congress where the candidates for successors arranged themselves on the stage as in a shop window. She was stardom for a figure that the management of the pandemic had boosted in the popularity rankings, which the PS took advantage of even in the electoral campaign that came, unexpectedly, shortly after. From this rise to the beginning of the fall. vertiginous It was just ten months.
It had valuable political capital easily recognizable on the street, which the PS had already proven in the September municipal elections. Fernando Medina did everything possible to have her in his electoral circuit in Lisbon and had Temido at a rally in the Aula Magna where he was the headliner. “Oh Marta, just kidding, you can say someone has a harder job than you. No”, Medina threw from the stage, seeking to highlight the management of the pandemic at a time when the country was preparing to enter the last phase of restrictions and continued with full-fledged vaccination (85% of the population had been fully vaccinated). . The political weight of Feared was opportune and sought after by the Socialists in the campaign.
Marta Feared: the electoral asset that the mayors of the PS do not do without
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Source: Observadora
