Word given is word honored. Marcelo spoke only about Ukraine and left Luís Montenegro waiting for him, who only planned to end the initiative on Sunday, but since the “supreme magistrate in the country” was present – who “he is still a former president of the PSD” – went to listen at the PSD Summer University the ‘reflections’ of the president who was not in Castelo de Vide ‘in that capacity’.

And what about Marques Mendes, who admitted to running for president in 2026? Montenegro replied that “It is neither the time nor the place to talk about the presidential election. I plan to talk about it in about two years”. And the statement is this: “We are very focused and very committed to fulfilling our task as an opposition to the government and an alternative to fighting and winning the next parliamentary elections..”

Portas defended at Summer University on Tuesday that the priority of the “non-socialist space” should be “to build an alternative to succeed Costa and not look for a successor to Marcelo”.

Santana Lopes, who also admits to being a candidate, disagrees with Portas and also with Montenegro. Speaking to SIC-N, he said that “you will be campaigning in a year’s time” and therefore it makes sense that next year, in “June or July”, the PSD will make a decision “on who will run for Belém” . .

Beyond these issues, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in the first moments of his intervention, explained why he decided to go “personally” to the PSD Summer University “to talk only about Ukraine”. “It is a central theme” and it is necessary “to explain this to young people”, especially since he can share recent experiences.

Marcelo, underlining the condemnation of the Russian invasion and giving a lesson on European history, left a warning: “Russophobia is stupid”, which got the better of him.

Marcelo has been to Summer University ten times

That Tuesday morning, August 30, 2022, the Prime Minister’s Office announced in a statement the resignation of Marta Temido. The day before, the death of a pregnant woman was reported, who was transferred due to a lack of vacancies in the neonatology department of Hospital de Santa Maria.

Costa, who “thanked all the work of the minister” immediately guaranteed that the replacement would not take place “soon”.[va] the new board of the SNS”. And it was.

Marcelo, who was waiting for the “formalization of the request for dismissal”, decided at the end of the afternoon of that day to answer the students of the PSD Summer University live, via video, and not as planned by sending recorded answers to the fifteen questions that were given to him.

He did not comment on Marta Temido’s dismissal or succession – ‘the issue of the day’, as he put it – but drew up a series of specifications because not the question [era] purely ideological, [era] largely organizational and functional”.

“I prefer the way the SNS is managed, always within a well-understood public framework, more autonomous and independent from the Ministry of Health, as the classic form of direct dependency has shown limits in its effectiveness”, detailed.

Now that he had the specs in order, Marcelo pointed to another file: TAP. The objectives outlined were simple and direct. The government had to be “very demanding in the recovery strategy” for two linear reasons. Besides being “a European obligation”, it also costs the Portuguese a lot of money.

In 2018, he had been in office for less than two years, answering the questions in writing, but there was one that led him to talk about the device.

– What do you think of the fact that in democracy the people are in charge and that the will of the people was not respected in the last parliamentary elections?

And Marcelo, who would say that “it’s getting more and more difficult to be a government and to be in the opposition. And maybe also to be president”, elaborated on the birth of “a new constitutional practice” and the novelty of having “two possible constitutional readings – one promoting debate over the choice of the prime minister, another proving the existence of a parliamentary majority of favors supportIn 2014, a month before the PS primaries, he spoke about the chances of the ‘fresh’ Costa, who would be a more ‘complicated’ opponent for the PSD.

“António José Seguro gets the wear and tear of the three years of job against him, which is unjust (…) and now suddenly the other verse appears’ he joked, saying that Costa was ‘waiting, from the window of the council’ and ‘in the last 100 meters of the marathon he went to rest’.It is not worth spoiling names and throwing them into the fire,” he replied. In October 2015, he would announce his candidacy.

Marcelo, who competed in seven more editions of the Universidade de Verão, conceded on his debut in 2005, considering a candidacy for Belém (2006), but only if Cavaco did not enter the race; in 2007 he accused Socrates of having “authoritarian or arrogance tics”; and in 2010 for example predicted that Passos, then leader of the PSD, who was “very cerebral and very cold”, would be able to withstand the “frenzy of the little oranges” and reach the government – ​​which happened the following summer.

The “It’s Not Worth Everything” Controversy

António Leitão Amaro said on Wednesday that some of the housing solutions proposed by Costa are similar to those proposed by Salazar and again promised to withdraw them when the PSD is in government. “António Costa meets António Oliveira Salazar, in what? In the freeze and restrictions of rents, the unfortunate solution that destroyed the center of the Portuguese cities – legacy from the time of the “other lady” – was revived by António Costa with new rental restrictionss”, accused the deputy of the PSD.

And then he attacked the Minister of Housing, Marina Gonçalves, for saying that the government’s proposals are balanced. “This minister is part of an increasingly dominant line within the PS, which is anything but balanced. It is only balanced for those who think the next step is communist totalitarianism.”he claimed.

The response from PS was immediate. The PS assistant secretary general found the comparison between the government’s housing measures and Salazar’s “deeply indecent and disrespectful”.

“This comparison that is being made, or any comparison that has been made between a democrat, a progressive man like the Prime Minister and General Secretary of the PS, António Costa, with a dictator with a bad memory in our country, is very indecent and disrespectful . and it is such an unnecessary criticism that it does not respect the history of the PSDsaid Joao Torres.