The vice-president of the PSD Leonor Beleza defended this Tuesday, October 14th, that voters’ confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government “contributed strongly” to the result of the Social Democrats in the municipal elections on Sunday, 12th, and called for responsibility from the mayors elected by the party.
“There is a factor of trust in whoever is governing the country, in the Prime Minister and in the Government, and in the policies that have been followed, and that, certainly, choosing priorities that citizens accept as priorities that correspond to their interests, contributed greatly to this result being able to take place”, defended the social democrat leader after a meeting of the permanent commission of the social democrats, held in the morning in a hotel in Lisbon, which it was not attended by the party leader and prime minister, Luís Montenegro.
The PSD’s first vice-president also highlighted that the party’s positive results extend across the national territory in a “new way”, emphasizing that “PSD’s elected representatives are not just located in certain areas of the territory” and that “the “good results are spread throughout the entire territory”.
Leonor Beleza also said that, although the party is satisfied, what should move the PSD’s elected representatives is responsibility and humility, because, she considered, what “truly counts is not so much what happened last Sunday, but what will happen in the next four years”.
“What counts is that all those who were elected correspond to the hopes, expectations, what we put when we put our little cross on the ballot papers, what counts is that the men and women who were elected can correspond to what all of us, citizens, expect from them”, he added.
The party’s vice-president also said, after being questioned about this matter, that this meeting did not result in any decision regarding the nomination of the PSD for the leadership of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP).