Winners and Overcome

The Portuguese wanted to reward the political parties, some with a vote of confidence, others with a direct red card.

On the winners side, although with different readings, there are AD and arrives, while in the wing of the losers are all other parties.

The AD PSD/CDS coalition was, without margin for doubt, the winner of the night, but we are facing a Pyrro victory, because the intended objectives were not achieved.

A year ago, in recognizing the electoral defeat, Pedro Nuno Santos was clear in expressing the intention of the PS to make a minority government headed by Montenegro viable, thus making a commitment not to present or favorably vote any motion of censorship, but having not been warned that he would not have equal posture before the government’s presentation of a motion of trust.

Thanks to this unexpected support, Montenegro has been able to form government, without choosing his ministers having to obey interests foreign to his party.

However, and after only scarce months of governance, Montenegro decided to precipitate a political crisis and challenge the PS with a motion of trust, which obviously failed.

In fact, the Prime Minister’s intention was to look for a wider majority and, with the help of the liberal initiative, to be able to form a new government, this time with an absolute majority.

It turns out that this objective was not achieved.

Despite having obtained more deputies and, above all, having considerably expanded the distance that separated him from the PS, Montenegro will have to continue to rule in a minority and depend on the good advice of the opposition.

Pedro Nuno Santos, in his losing and withdrawal of the party leadership, was clear by letting the idea that the PS has no obligation to enable the government program that will soon be submitted in Parliament.

However, the most natural is that this desire is not shared by those who will succeed him in the leadership of the party, which is why it is supposed to wait for the next government to be confirmed by the now -elected parliamentarians.

But Montenegro’s life will remain difficult and certainly much more sorry as a consequence of the growth of the arrival and the almost certain achievement of second place, so it will have to face a much more robust opposition and betting on not granting you any card.

Montenegro will now have to negotiate with the arrival and give in to many of his claims, otherwise to lead the country to a swamp of infonability if he insists on the foolish « not no ».

And if in the previous legislature Ventura was a very hard bone to gnaw, in this now, with well-reinforced popular legitimation and imposing as opposition leader, headaches to inflict on the future executive will be much more painful and the welcome to many of their ideas will necessarily be taken into consideration.

Montenegro will have two options, or daily dye the hair in black to disguise the gray entrances that are sealing from your head, the result of the permanent political combat that will be exposed to an opponent who will not grant him respite or facilities, or leaves vanities and assumes the one that will be his new face, characterized by the increasingly whitish hair.

The arrival may sing well of victory, and Ventura is the only head of poster, among those who have submitted to the popular vote, which has more than enough reasons to smile.

Contrary to all expectations, read, the destination being traced by the comments and politicians who every day pollute the newsrooms of the various televisions and other press agencies, not only see their parliamentary group come out well reinforced, but given what is expected to leave the result of the electorate scattered around the world in which our emigrants move, the second political force of Portugal and the second political force and Consequently, the head of the opposition.

This is a remarkable achievement, because it is the first time, in the life of this third and sick Republic, that one of the two main parties of the system is relegated to third position, thus inflicting a mate check to the bipartisanship that has characterized it.

Ventura did not overcome the elections, according to, to make faith in the words he repeatedly uttered in campaign, that would be his first purpose, but, let’s face it, nor did he believe in this eventual scenario, but today has the way out so that in the near future it will reach that goal.

And Ventura well can thank Montenegro for the immense favor that he generously granted him, for the arrival was the only party that really benefited from the absurd dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic.

From among the losers, the summit position is arranged, arguably by the PS, which becomes the third party, surpassed by the fiercely fought, if, of course, it is confirmed the expected vote of emigrants.

Pedro Santos who presented himself to the country on the night of the electoral displacement, with his voice to beaway, betrayed by emotion and discouragement, was not only a defeated, but also those who, in a simple breath, were disposed of the dream of a life.

Santos built his entire political career with one desire, to be a prime minister, an ambition that came to an end in scarce hours of a tragic day for the desire he cherished.

There is no memory in Portugal of a copiously punished party leader at the polls and in this loser of the confidence of his peers, to be able to resurrect politically and to return to the top of the party that catapulted him to public life and able to dispute the country’s leadership.

The greed of a weak man, with a too winding political path, led not only to his fall, but dragged the party that he served to the greatest displacement of his existence.

Also the liberal initiative, in reverse to what is sought to show, and despite having achieved another parliamentary place, has no reason to celebrate the results obtained, considering that they fell far short of those who were expected, not only by the party but also by the press that is not hostile.

Rui Rocha had as a dream of making IL in an AD partner and, as a prize, to receive an invitation to integrate the government, taking with it some of its co-religionists, but this will smashed from the moment the number of seats he obtained in parliament turned out to be insufficient to materialize in an absolute majority with the winning coalition.

It remains for the consolation of being crucial in a hypothetical constitutional revision.

Free, despite grew up in votes and terms, was, as well, far from what all polls, which at least pointed to double deputies in Parliament, so the rockets that were heard on the election night were manifestly unreasonable.

Rui Tavares will continue to be a voice to preach in the desert, with an influence on the national political life much lower than the one who is preached by himself and his next, both in the party and in the press that gives him all kinds of freight.

There is also a consolation of him, to have become the main end of far left with a seat in the Assembly of the Republic, surpassing communists and blocks.

The PCP continues its Calvary, not only by seeing the electorate that remains faithful to it, by virtue of the unavoidable truth that earthly life is not eternal, and the children who have long left that turned back to the ideas of their parents, as well as tragic reality for the last stalinists in the face of the earth, were seeing the villages and villages that have been irreducible for irreducible Baluates for the villages for a few years. Communists pass into the hands of those who are seen as the enemies of the far right!

As for BE, everything that says will always be little!

The appeal to the Brigade of the Rheumatic has revealed inglorious, not now left to these unfortunate fighters another alternative other than returning to home from where they should never have come out!

Mariana Mortágua, not bringing a single valid idea for the campaign in which she was involved and insisting on a blicing discourse directed exclusively against those who generate jobs, dictated the early death of a then dying party, which, by the way of truth, is absolutely no miss in Portuguese society.

But worse was his behavior when he became aware of the huge electoral displays that was slaughtered with the blockas and the confirmation of his notorious disability for leadership, by refusing to assume the proper responsibilities and to move away from his foot, from the place that had previously been offered to him.

By a much less serious hecatomb, his predecessor had the common sense and decency of dismissing himself, but the girl who grew up within a heavy revolutionary environment is considered above contingencies of this nature.

Mortágu, with his pride, only confirmed us something that was already public knowledge about its character and is defined by two simple words: no good!

Inês Sousa Real well can thank the gods for being saved In extremis By guaranteeing its poiso in the future assembly, but of course, it has no reason to rub its contentment.

It has not been able to recover the parliamentary group, an ambition to which it has been proposed, so it can well proceed with its usual verbal diarrhea, because no one, except for a few owners of puppies and kittens imprisoned in city city, will pay you the slightest attention!

Montenegro’s move to victimize and provoke early elections had, a great virtue has to be recognized, which will only be effective if it is superior.

For the first time in half a century, non -socialist political space has a majority of two thirds in Parliament, which configures the will of the Portuguese in which all remnants of Marxism are eliminated that still persist in our constitution and other ordinary laws.

The noise that the entire left has generated since it has realized its current insignificance, terrified of the fear of the loss of rights acquired through fundamental legislations approved in the middle of institutional disturbance, is the sign that the right parties of the PS have the obligation to put aside the differences that separate them and work together for Portugal’s economic and social development.

If they do not do so, they risk losing the confidence that the Portuguese have placed in them.

Pedro Ochôa