At 22 p.m. Fernando Medina Is Out of the Race and Will Not Be Candidate for PS Leadership

Pedro Nuno Santos will have achieved the second worst result of the PS in Legislatives, with regard to the number of elected Members. Less than 365 thousand votes have forced the leader to resign. Carlos Caesar should take the internal direction until the successor has been selected. The Socialist Party content. A country in the Rato Valley appears first in Journal i.

José Luís Carneiro should be the only socialist to compete with the successor of Pedro Nuno Santos. Carlos César, proposes immediate elections for the post-general secretary-general of the PS.

In 1972, from the exile in Paris, Mário Soares wrote that it is only the one who wants to fight. In 2025, the same phrase would be repeated by two other socialist leaders. Pedro Nuno Santos, pressured by the electoral results, used it to soften his exit from the leadership of the PS. Paulo Cafófo, despite the electoral results, used it to justify his stay in the presidential office of the socialists. The same phrase, says on the same election ni…

Filipe Santos Costa says that it is not necessary to "hibernate until after the Presidents" to understand what happened to the PS. "This idea that the party should, for a few months, become a Buddhist temple, and they are all reluctant to reflect and in the search of its nervana, is an absolute shooting," observes CNN Portuguese commentator.

In statements to the Now Channel, the former Minister of Finance pointed out that, after the heavy defeat in Sunday's legislation, the party should "make a deep, lucid and cold reflection on the new political framework (...) which is particularly necessary for the PS, but also for Portuguese democracy". "I believe that the launch of a candidate in the second-day [by José Luis Carneiro] has begun an internal process, at the bottom of the count of…

Former Minister of Finance admits that he weighed for candidateship, but decided not to advance because he argued that the party should make a “deep reflection” before the elections.