The cell phone rang last Monday, the day Miguel Alves turned 47. The political proximity is great, but it was not to celebrate the date that António Costa called him at that time. i had one concern propose to her, but even though he took the mayor of Caminha by surprise by the momentIt wasn’t exactly anything anyone had done in PS. fall off the chair in amazement. Entering the government was a chapter to come for Miguel Alves, after the two established a relationship in 2005, led by Pedro Nuno Santos.
António Costa was Minister of Internal Administration, number two in the Government of José Sócrates, when he spoke with the then leader of the Socialist Youth to indicate someone “less trained” by the parameters of Lisbon who could work with him in Terreiro do Paço . It was like this, Peter Nuno Santos the first to speak with Costa about who is now the deputy secretary of state of the Prime Minister, a figure that the socialist leader took just over five months to recover, after having replaced him with a new director of communication.
The structure found by António Costa for the PS Government with an absolute majority had a very short life. The coordination did not work before the arrival of João Cepeda, but it did not improve after that change either. By the way, the presence of a non-politician in the coordination meetings and the delivery of this folder to someone from outside had already been noted with discomfort by some socialists, as the Observer reported in August.
There were political flaws in the political management machinery that made the socialists very nervous, even more so when multiplied cases, such as the office of Pedro Nuno Santos, which Costa had not authorized, or the inflexible response to health problems that resulted in the dismissal of Marta Temido.
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Source: Observadora
