In a late-night speech at a hotel in downtown Porto, the centrist leader addressed those who believed the CDS had ended, urging them, “count the votes, count the councilors, count the municipalities, don’t be mistaken.”
Nuno Melo stated that in these local elections, the CDS-PP has “six plus one,” referring to the six municipalities where they retained power and another gained this Sunday in coalition with the PSD, the municipality of Mêda, in the district of Guarda, with a CDS head of the list.
“Today was a very happy night for the CDS,” he declared, emphasizing that “today a very important cycle that was a cycle of resistance ends, and a cycle of growth begins” for the party.
Nuno Melo highlighted “a particular note: the AD (Democratic Alliance), the coalition between CDS-PP and PSD, won Beja, a left stronghold.”
“It has been a great journey since 2023, with victory after victory, the CDS is here to stay and to grow,” he stated.
The hotel room in downtown Porto, chosen by the CDS-PP for the election night, filled up late in the evening, after confirming the retention of the six municipalities, three in the district of Aveiro, namely Vale de Cambra, Albergaria-a-Velha, and Oliveira do Bairro, Ponte de Lima, in the district of Viana do Castelo, Santana, in Madeira, and Velas, in the Azores.
At the end of his speech, Nuno Melo announced that he would head to Pedro Duarte’s campaign headquarters to embrace the candidate of the PSD/CDS-PP coalition who won the election for the Porto City Council.
The leader of the CDS-PP also mentioned that he would then travel to Vale de Cambra to hold a rally.
He left a word for the AD and a note regarding the colors of the electoral maps displayed by the television networks.
“They may paint these achievements in just one color (orange), but you can be sure that where the Democratic Alliance is, there is also blue, yellow, there is the CDS,” he declared.
Nuno Melo also reminded that the CDS is in the Government of the Republic, in the regional governments of Madeira and the Azores, in municipalities, in the European parliament, and has returned to the Assembly of the Republic, concluding that the party “stands on its own in its lists or in a coalition.”
