The new general secretary of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, took a front row seat on the Socialist bench on Tuesday, in a discreet entrance in the middle of the debate and marked by the deputy of the PSD parliament Adão Silva.
Pedro Nuno Santos was elected PS general secretary with 62% of the votes in direct elections held between Friday and Saturday. He competed against José Luís Carneiro, who finished in second place with 36%, and Daniel Adrião, who came in second place with 36%. 1% of the votes.
This Tuesday, the first plenary session since his election took place, a debate highlighted by Livre on the “Two-State Solution and the Recognition of the Independence of Palestine”.
Pedro Nuno Santos joined the debate around 4 p.m. and moved to the front row – having been in the last row since his return to parliament after the government resigned -, sitting next to the parliamentary leader, Eurico Brilhante Dias. after greeting him, and his supporter and Socialist Bank deputy Pedro Delgado Alves.
When he entered, PCP deputy Bruno Dias spoke, followed by the intervention of Chega’s leader, André Ventura, with the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, handing over the leadership of parliamentary work to Vice President Adão Silva. .
It was the social democrat who, at the end of Chega’s intervention, conveyed a “very special greeting” to the deputy Pedro Nuno Santos on the occasion of his election, and immediately afterwards greeted the citizens and students present in the galleries, a discreet and unobtrusive speech . applause in the hall.
This election process in the PS opened with the resignation of António Costa from his position as Prime Minister, on November 7, after it was made public that he was the target of a judicial investigation opened by the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Supreme Court of Justice. from Operation Influencer.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, immediately accepted the Prime Minister’s resignation, decided to dissolve Parliament and scheduled early parliamentary elections for March 10.
António Costa was first elected general secretary of the PS on November 22, 2014, two months after winning the primaries for the party’s candidate for the post of prime minister, open to non-members, which he contested with then leader. António José Safe, in September this year. He has been Prime Minister since November 26, 2015.
The former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Housing Pedro Nuno Santos, the current Minister of the Interior and former Deputy Secretary General of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, and the Socialist leader Daniel Adrião, member of the Political Commission, who are running for office ran for party leadership the fourth time.
Source: DN
