The PS’s National Jurisdiction Commission (CNJ) sent a notification to several members of the party confirming expulsion decisions. Daniel Adrião, former candidate for party leadership four times, received the letter, which is dated November 14th. As such, the former candidate for general secretary is no longer a member of the party.
At issue is Daniel Adrião’s candidacy for the presidency of the parish of S. Vicente, in Lisbon, independently, running directly against the candidate of the party for which he was a member.
According to the CNJ, “joining a list contrary to that presented by the PS or to the guidelines defined by the party’s competent bodies” is considered a “disciplinary infraction, qualified as serious misconduct”, which gave rise to expulsion. The letter laments “the gratuitous confrontation” in the last local authorities. Remember that the choice fell on André Biveti, who won the elections in the parishdespite Daniel Adrião having always stated that his name was well received even with Pedro Nuno Santos, and later José Luís Carneiro, at the helm of the PS.
To DN, he admits that he will appeal to the Constitutional Court. “It does not answer the essential question raised in my appeal, in this case the failure to comply with the statutory norm relating to the approval of the list by the competent body, with powers to define the party’s orientation. How could I challenge an act that did not exist? There is no legal basis… it is the domain of fiction. The Constitutional Court will decide who is right”, warned Daniel Adrião in conversation with DN.
At the beginning of this week, Luís Parreirão, a strongman at the National Secretariat, recalled that there are “rules” in the PS. “The party has rules, discipline must be applied. Members know that they must support the PS in the elections, unless there are indications of freedom to vote. When they break rules, that’s life…”, tried to clarify, preferring not to confirm whether there were more than a dozen in this situation in 2025 and adopting, instead, a diplomatic stance. “There are several circumstances, we assess whether the people who leave maintain socialist ideas. Returns are always considered on a case-by-case basis”, he states. He did not respond, at the time, in the specific case of Daniel Adrião.
In the same interview, Parreirão spoke about the growth of militants, 6000 in less than two years, putting the PS above 90 thousand members. We can only wait for updates from some dissidents who were, however, faced with expulsion decisions.