Remains to surprises. The state of the nation in five acts

Started at 09:45 and finished at 14:00. Warm, but substantial, because everyone already knows each other very well. The PS insisted on a message to the partners of the gear: tango was done at three (PS + BE + CDU) but it can be done at two and in the end, only one is irreplaceable: PS itself

19659003] There was a mark in the parliamentary debate yesterday, it was the snatches of the left majority. The immediate context is the next state budget (OE 2019), which will reach Parliament on October 15th. But also – and especially – the upcoming parliamentary elections and the need for everyone to claim his share of success, but at the same time, to assert his critical identity. And even the leader of the PS, Carlos César, has done using successive expressions like "we are not satisfied" or "we must improve" or "the effort will have to continue".

And here are six messages:

Reminder 1 by António Costa: The success of governance belongs to all the partners of the left majority, as well. Neither BE, PCP, nor PEV have anything to fear from PS. The PS will not claim exclusively for itself any success that, he stressed more than once, are those of all.

Message 2 also from António Costa: the best would be that the partners realize that they must be proud "in what has been obtained (more employment, less deficit, more economic growth) instead of always criticizing. "

Reminder 3 by Carlos César: "The PS will never fail … leftist government." Have you realized, blocks and communists and ecologists?

Recado 4 also by Carlos César: the left-wing solution in Portugal has "international prestige" because the PS, leader of the "coalition", accepted the rules imposed on the "external plane" (contrary to what BE, PCP and PEV require).

Answer 5 BE and PCP: PS must "make choices". It must refuse to remain "subordinated" to EU rules that do not allow it to renegotiate public debt and impose minimum deficits – and thus major problems in maintaining quality public systems such as that the NHS or the public school system

Message 6 : by the deputy minister Pedro Siza Vieira. This is to read later.

Surprise (1)

The speech of Fernando Negrao. A speech little or not in line with the idea – of Rui Rio – that the PSD should collaborate with the government on "structural" measures. A violent speech to the government that spoke of something that nobody else was talking about: corruption, "one of the biggest cancers of democracy, that we have the obligation to fight without barracks ". And that, in his opinion, was fought only by a "free press" and an "autonomous and active public prosecutor" (that is to say without commitment from the government). The bench gained weight to cheer Negrao. And Hugo Soares, Negrão's predecessor in the function – who sees himself in fact as a kind of eminent leader on the bench – took pains to personally greet the speaker. Is there reconciliation on the PSD bench? Yes, but a reconciliation against Rio (Hugo Soares and Fernando Negrão supported Santana)

The surprise (2)

António Costa decided that the final intervention would fall to the deputy minister, Pedro Siza Vieira. Usually the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, or Social Security, Vieira da Silva, or the Minister of Finance, Mário Centeno (but he has been very busy with the Eurogroup). But no: Costa has chosen his friend, telling him that, and the political world (the PS, the rest of the government), which gives him the political power to represent him. Siza Vieira has left an important message to the "cousins" of the left-wing majority (notably the PCP, who has talked a lot about "alternative, patriotic and left-wing politics"): an "alternative" policy can only be "contrary" ". There are actually no alternatives in the left: either it's done or it's what the PSD and the CDS have done between 2011 and 2015. A speech to the light of black and white: either we or the others [19659002] The neg