In his speech at the Christmas dinner of the PS faction, which brings together deputies, members of the government and party leaders, Pedro Nuno Santos reaffirmed the “pride in the legacy” of these eight years of socialist rule, as this will not be the case. It would be necessary to contradict everything that was done, but rather to continue the path that was being followed.
“It’s not okay, we are the first to adopt this and we can say that with authority, but we also know this: we are not going to start from scratch, we do not have to start from zero. We have to continue the work that was initiated and to implement many of the seeds that were sown,” he said.
Whether it is housing, health care or other issues that he assures the Socialist government has prioritized, Pedro Nuno Santos assured that socialists “don’t start talking from the beginning.”
“We didn’t start from scratch, but the right would have to start from scratch if they won the elections. They would have to start from scratch because they disagreed and do not agree with the path we have taken.” , he defended.
The Socialists’ new leader said the right would not have raised pensions or the national minimum wage and would have left housing to the market.
“Instead of a country for all of us, we would have a country of losers and winners, that would have been the legacy the PSD would have left to the country,” he shot.
According to Pedro Nuno Santos, the right wants to compete in terms of language with the extreme right, with Chega.
“Today, from a discursive point of view, there is little that distinguishes the leader of the PSD from the leader of Chega,” he said.
Pedro Nuno Santos began his intervention by recalling that the cycle of governance “very important for the country” with António Costa, which will now end, began in 2014, and reiterated “his great pride” in having become the first president of the federation that year used to be. to express public support for the still Prime Minister for the leadership of the PS.
“The debt this party owes you is infinite, eternal,” he said, addressing António Costa as he received a long ovation from the Socialists.
The elected leader recalled for a few minutes the period of the device, a topic that also served to praise António Costa, the first leader of the PS “who wanted to break down the walls with part of the party system” and the “arc concept of management”.
Assuming that he himself had many doubts about the possibility of the agreement with PCP, BE and PEV and that “very few believed”, Pedro Nuno Santos emphasized that “it was always António Costa who gave confidence in the work” that was done.
The Socialist even recalled a moment when he thought negotiations were blocked and during a meeting at the PS headquarters he told Costa that he saw that “it was bad”, but when describing the situation to the Prime Minister he said to him “ah. , it went very wrong”, as it was necessary to get used to “the speech and the way this potential partner worked”.
“The idea belongs to António Costa. He is the one who wanted to break with the concept of a governance arc and the success of the governance is due to him,” he praised.
Pedro Nuno Santos stressed that the building years were “very important” for him and that they left an impression on him, preserving “the best memories” of the team he formed with António Costa and Mariana Vieira da Silva, as it is unequivocal that the country better than in 2015.
Source: DN
