CDs already have a candidate for the case of 'divorce' with coins

Lisbon and Porto remain the most bicked cases in preparing the municipal elections of September/October. Little by little, the parties are closing coalition agreements and autonomous candidacies to the main autarchies of the country, but the two main cities remain with many issues open, a few months from the polls to the polls.

Difficulty coins to form coalition

Comfortable in the position of acting mayor, Carlos Coins has repeated that he is not concerned with announcing whether he is a re -candidate for being focused on governor of the city.

In an local election, time plays in favor of who is governing and has the work to show, but in a coalition that wants to maintain and widen, the big decisions cannot be left to the last minute and coins know it.

To what the Sunrisethe last times have not been peaceful within the coalition that rules Lisbon. The delay at the beginning of negotiations that the CDS considers crucial to decide whether to be outside or within a agreement such as currencies, came the accusation of the Tutti Frutti process, which removed from the conversations between the two parties the main protagonists of the local PSD structure. «In fact, one of the problems is that no one knows who the interlocutor is on the other side»tells us a centrist source. One of the problems, as they report to us, lies in the fact that the agreement goes far beyond the list of councilors. «There are numerous choices that exceed the list of coins to the House. We need to talk about the lists to the parish councils, there are many candidates who do not go through the priorities of the candidate for the House ».

But on the basis of an understanding between centrists and social democrats it will be the division of eligible places on Carlos Cois list. The centrists consider that the previous agreement, signed by Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, damaged the party, as the negotiation base should have taken into account the results of the 2017 elections. In the last elections before the victory of coins, Asuncion Cristas applied for CML and got a historical result: it was the second most voted force, having elected four councilors. In 2017, the PSD was behind the centrists and managed to elect only two councilors.

These are the arguments that lead the new direction of Nuno Melo to do to the maintenance of the previous agreement, ie the requirement that the CDS must maintain at least the same three councilors in eligible places.

A knowledge -known source has assured our newspaper that under no circumstances does the party accept to reduce its representation in the coalition, and if Carlos coins try to impose it, then the party goes to elections alone. « The life of CDS_ is much easier, we have nothing to lose, so if they want to take a councilman there will be war. »

The question of an adjustment in the weight of the CDS_Dentro of the coalition that supports the current mayor is, above all, because Carlos Coins wants to join the liberal initiative in supporting his candidacy. In the last elections, IL eventually left out, precisely because it could not win its claim to have a higher representation than the centrists. The party set out for negotiation based on the result of previous legislative elections that had left the CDs reduced to four deputies. In 2021, liberal pressure was unsuccessful and the party chose to compete alone.

Places for IL

Now Carlos Coins will want a different outcome, but for that you have to find way to offer IL places in the chamber. « Nothing against »says the CDS, «But Il does not come at the expense of the CDS»guarantee. «This is a problem that is responsible for Dr. Coins to solve»It tells us to our source, that at the same time it goes that if things go wrong in this negotiation, the CDs already has an B plan that goes through an isolated candidacy for which there are already names in mind.

On the other hand, on the liberal initiative side, the strategy that is outlining, also does not seem to be favorable to the plans of Carlos Coinas. Party source tells our newspaper that IL «It is working advanced in its own candidacy». The liberals justify the decision with the consequences of the Tutti Frutti process, which left the PSD's two main Local Local Structures in Maus Lençóis, President of Concelia and Ângelo Pereira, President of the District. Liberals consider that « The PSD has a serious problem with its local Lisbon structures and, despite some attempts, has not yet proved that it can clean the house for good ». For this reason, it tells us the same source, «Own candidacy is being prepared at all steam». Liberals guarantee that there have been no conversations with coins so far, and that «Just to accept talking, the PSD really has to clean the house for good».

Aware of all these difficulties, coins have delayed the opening of negotiations with possible coalition partners. Decisions only in relation to the names you will want to put on the lists on the PSD side, where, according to the Observer This week, Gonçalo Reis, former president of RTPwill have a prominent place, such as number two on the list of coins. In suspended is the position that Filipe Anacoreto Correia will occupy and as a title, as the CDs made it clear that it will not indicate the name of the current vice president in the quota of the centrists.

Right on the way to an understanding in Porto

In the port, right and left things seem increasingly referred. Manuel Pizarro is the socialist candidate already on the ground and right, after a moment when there seemed to be no understandings, now the way seems easier for AD and Liberal to understand each other. To which the Sunrisenegotiations between the local structure of IL and PSD, in order to achieve a coalition agreement, which has as its main objective «Avoid the victory of Manuel Pizarro».

Focused on the objective of avoiding the House to deliver to the PS, it also seems to be the current president of the municipality, who last week gave a fatal blow to the claims of his number two, Filipe Araújo. Rui Moreira made it clear that an eventual candidacy of his deputy could not be launched under the Guardian of the Porto Association our movement and this circumstance leaves Filipe Araújo in difficulty finding support for his candidacy.

This is also why Pedro Duarte and the PSD have been postponing the candidate's formal announcement. Luís Montenegro's team has been having a understanding of the main forces on the right for months, also seeking to include the support, even if implicit in Rui Moreira's movement, to try to conquer the port. At the end of months of conversation, things now seem to be heading.