The president of the Social Democrats, Luís Montenegro, assured this Monday that the “PSD will be more PPD” and considered the “greatest compliment” that can be given to the party and to himself the statement in which the President of the Republic defined the current prime minister as an “urban-rural” person.
At the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the PSD that took place this Monday at Estufa Fria, in Lisbon, the prime minister took advantage of the celebration of the party’s anniversaryFounded on May 6, 1974 by Sá Carneiro, Magalhães Mota and Pinto Balsemão, the PPD/PSD to remember that, as soon as he assumed leadership of the party, he guaranteed that the PSD would be “a PSD identified with its social-democratic roots” . And ensure: “We are going to be a PSD plus PPD and that is what we are today.” In 1976, the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) became PPD/PSD (Social Democratic Party).
Luís Montenegro said he was “very comfortable” with what was said about the party and, regarding its leadership, stressed that “politics serves to leave no one behind”.
“Even if this raises great debates about the origins, about the matrix, the idiosyncrasy, of the party, even of the leadership, I want to say-you: it’s not really a question of being more urban or more rural. It is a concept of valuing the person in all their dimension and expression, of valuing the condition of each person with everything they have to put at the service of everyone. Yes, that is my conception and our conception, if we recognize this conception today I want to say that this is the greatest compliment that can be given to PPD/PSD and its leader”, highlighted Montenegro, after President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that the current prime minister “comes from a deep country, urban-ruralwith rural behaviors”, considering this to be the party’s matrix.
The former President of the Republic and former leader of the PSD, Cavaco Silva, also defended, in an interview with PÚBLICO, that what distinguishes the party “It’s interclassism.”
In a speech also punctuated by several references to the history of the party and democracy, the social democratic leader stated that the PSD was always at the “front line” of those who contributed most to the country’s development.
“We never wavered”, he said, considering that “we were always on the right side” and pointing to the 25th of November as the defined date