António Costa Silva believed that he was being targeted by a “conspiracy” coming from the socialist machine. He, the independent who had been invited by António Costa and who had a low price on the PS stock market, was being shredded internally and he made sure to point it out. Seizing on the motto, the prime minister advanced to a small remodel and tried to solve various problems. Within the PS, however, the elections of the socialist leader provoked a bittersweet reaction: the promotion of António Mendonça Mendes is widely praised; The changes in the Treasury and Economy, central ministries in which the Socialists detect a worrying lack of political weight, did not convince.
Costa had several problems on his hands to solve in the Executive. First: the fragile situation of the Minister of Economy, who had been publicly denied on several occasions, the most serious of them by their own secretaries of state????????
If there were those in the PS who believed that Costa Silva himself would be the first victim of this lack of coordination, Costa, who received requests for support from his minister, had other ideas — and there are plenty of people in the party who recall that the prime minister does not tolerate ”disloyalties???????? Costa Silva asked, Costa ruled out: “This is not a case, this is a cleaning service”summarizes a socialist leader.
The second problem had to do with the knot, hitherto impossible to resolve, in the coordination of the Government, which was once again on the table with the controversial resignation of the Undersecretary of State, Miguel Alves, who fell after barely a month. in the office. To do this, Costa decided to call a well-known name from the socialist apparatus, considered a working “machine” and political capacity on the part of their peers, but which raises concerns about the family door????????
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Source: Observadora
