“If this is like this in two months, I can’t even imagine what will come next. Either there is a quick attitude change or it will only get worse.” The outburst is from a PSD deputy and helps illustrate the atmosphere in the Social Democratic parliamentary group: although there is no organized internal opposition movement, trenches are already forming.
The episode of the election or not of Rui Paulo Sousa as Vice President of the Assembly of the Republic was just another think of the fire. According to Luís Montenegro, four hours before the vote and without the PSD parliamentary group having deliberated on the matter, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento sent an email to the deputies to vote in favor of parliamentarian Chega.
The pretext – respecting “democratic normality” – did not convince the arm of the party in the Assembly and the discomfort generated by the statement had a practical consequence: surely a third (but presumably more) of the Social Democratic deputies did not obey Miranda’s candidacy . Sarmiento.
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Source: Observadora
