At the age of 14, he joined the PCP and the relationship lasted ten years until Manuel Pizarro concluded that, after all, “in democratic centralism, centralism eats up democracy”, as he himself puts it when recalling those times in which he was even elected mayor. in the Ramalde Board, by the CDU. There he still had a very brief interregnum of three years before joining the PS, which he had approached during that first exercise of local power. He was destined to be Secretary of State in a Government of António Guterres, but with the specialty of internal medicine unfinished, it was his ambition that put him on hold. In the description of him, by those who know him, there is an obsession with work, “eloquence” and “flexibility” of a “Swiss Army Knife”. Characteristics for bad and for good.
“Say yes to everything. He will say yes to the doctors, to the nurses, to the unions, to the Minister of Finance, to the private groups,” he tells the Observer, who worked closely with him. “Say yes to your friend and to your enemy.”. “He is multifaceted”, a true “Swiss army knife”, describes a socialist in the most flattering way for Pizarro. The two descriptions converge in a personality who lives for politics and has also lived from it, cultivating cheerleaders and supporters with an active presence on the ground, where there are no hours to attend to requests, from the most to the least influential of the chain. .
“It is very powerful to control the PS machine.” And as soon as you see, a”apparatus first water. In the Porto Chamber, when he established a political agreement with Rui Moreira (read below) there was a term to describe episodes generated by promises made on the ground by Pizarro, they were the “crazy”. “Promise eloquently”, remember who was closest in those times, but promise everything at the same time.
As for the ability to work, more or less appreciative of style, everyone recognizes that “it is well above average”. “It’s decided,” describes Renato Sampaio, who led PS-Porto and has known him since he joined PS. “Very smart and hard-working,” he adds. João Pedro Matos Fernandes, former Minister of the Environment, is his friend (and patient) and assures that “he is very preparedknowing well the terrain that it will occupy as of this Saturday.
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Source: Observadora
