For António Costa, Pedro Nuno Santos remains “one of the great cadres” of the PS. Especially since the life of a politician “is not a hundred yards race”.
In an interview with RTP, as Secretary General of the PS, when asked about the political future of the former Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Costa reiterated his promise not to interfere in the choice of his successor and that it has tried to “identify who the best cadres are” of the party so that they “prove their capabilities and that they can be anything they want to be and that the PS militants want them to be”. And “Pedro Nuno Santos is indisputably one of the great political figures of the PS”.
And when asked about the controversies in which he was involved, namely those related to TAP, which led to his departure from the government, did no harm, the PS secretary general put into perspective: “Political activity is an activity that moments of success, there are moments of failure, there are good moments, there are negative moments. The life of a politician is not a hundred meter race.
António Costa gave the example of his own journey and remembered the defeat he had 30 years ago in local elections when he ran for mayor of Loures. “The engineer Demétrio Alves beat me in those elections, it’s part of political life. People have to learn to win and defeat,” he insisted.
In the interview, the secretary-general of the PS defended that it is still too early to talk about the 2026 presidential election or other elections scheduled for the coming years.
When asked whether the current President of the Republic’s Assembly, Augusto Santos Silva, is a good candidate for Belém and whether the PS will support a candidate for the presidency of the Republic this time, António Costa replied: “It’s all very premature. We cannot be there to discuss everything at the same time. Political life has its own times”.
Source: DN
