“I want to tell the Portuguese men and women that we have a strong sense of democratic humility, and that is why you can trust us. You can trust us with majorities in the municipalities because these majorities will respect the plurality of thought, the diversity of opinions, and will act with respect for the oppositions,” declared José Luís Carneiro at the start of the last day of the local election campaign.
The general secretary of the PS joined a procession this morning in Sintra, followed by speeches and a brief dance moment to the sound of the local campaign anthem, to support the PS/Livre’s candidacy for the mayor’s office, led by former minister Ana Mendes Godinho.
“All democrats have reasons to reconnect with the Socialist Party, and here in Sintra, there is no doubt: the great house of democracy is the house led by Ana Godinho, who has very concrete evidence of service in public policies,” he praised.
Carneiro recalled the work of the former Minister of Labor during the pandemic to protect the people.
“The easiest thing would have been to do what others did during the ‘troika’, who now appear shamelessly, as if we had forgotten what it was like to pit some against others, the old against the new, the rich against the poor, throwing people into despair across the European and national contexts,” he criticized in a municipality where former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho supported the PSD candidate.
The PS leader said he does not forget that ‘troika’ period and recalled the response to the pandemic by the PS Government, which was a “solidary, fraternal response that left no one behind”.
