The socialist concern at this time is as great as the difficulty in responding to the political problem created by the departure of an under-secretary of state to the prime minister less than two months after taking office. The shot went directly to the aircraft carrier, to the coordination of the Government, and precisely to the solution that António Costa had found to help get out of the tangle of cases and the political disorientation of his team. In PS the feeling is disorientation and a forceful and “bulletproof” response is expected from the socialist leader, names and solutions are even being risked. Internally, the to worry it is in the space that is being left to “cases” and “commentators”, due to the absence of “political responses”.
The warning comes from within the hard core, where the socialist leader has been advised to “govern well, thinking more of the voters than the commentators???????? “In the end, we do the calculations,” says a senior Observer official. Another adds that “the the problem is not the cases, but the political responses to the problems” facing the country. Both express concern about the inability to keep these same political cases out of the center of the debate.
“The cases have always existed and will exist. They are simply not the center of the political debate when we are able to set the political agenda”, shoots a government official. In full discussion of the State Budget for 2023, whose processing ends in Parliament next week, there is discomfort in the Government with the inability to ensure that it does not even enter the public debate. “Is someone talking about the SO?”shoot rhetorically.
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Source: Observadora
