In all 16 municipalities of the Algarve, the Socialist Party only has to announce the candidate in Monchique, after the names of Adelino Soares (Vila do Bispo), Fátima Matos (Silves) and Ricardo Clemente (Albufeira) have been confirmed by the national leadership.
And if, in the last two, the confirmation of candidates turned out to be peaceful, in the case of the current mayor of Vila do Bispo it caused an internal split that had been taking place for a long time.
The leaders of the Vilabispense PS, who had already withdrawn political confidence from Adelino Soares long ago, presented their resignation as soon as the decision of the party's leadership was made official. Among the militants who cut their relationship with the PS, there is Nuno Amado, president of the Municipal Assembly and the Political Commission of the PS in Vila do Bispo.
In a public statement, the former socialist leader announced the resignation of his team in bloc, adding that "about 70% of local militants handed over their cards requesting the disaffiliation of the party".
“After all these years of conflict between the council structure and the mayor, this was the result I had been waiting for. It didn't surprise me," he told the Sul Informação António Eusébio, president of PS/Algarve.
The “disband” of a good part of the socialist militants, in Vila do Bispo, does not disturb, even so, António Eusébio. “What we need now is to make our way and create new teams. As we are in power, I am certain that President Adelino Soares will do all the work necessary to win the elections, something that I am certain will happen,” he added.
In Monchique, socialists also seem not to have an easy life, as the local PS Council has not yet chosen, itself, a name to lead an eventual candidacy for the Chamber that is currently in the hands of the social democrat Rui André.
Still without an official candidate in any of the 16 councils in the Algarve, the Left Bloc continues, which will only start announcing the names of heads-of-list from Saturday, February 18, following the party's National Autarchic Meeting, which will have place in Lisbon.
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