Menezes isolated in attack on the leader of the PSD

The controversial statement of Manuela Ferreira Leite also shaken the PSD, but Luis Filipe Menezes is willing to put everything into question. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa devalued the matter and the group of steps is watching
The words of Manuela Ferreira Leite, says it is ironic that, on a possible suspension of democracy for six months caused the increase of unrest within the PSD. But for now, only Luis Filipe Menezes, predecessor of the current leader, is committed to changing the state of affairs. The DN knows that between yesterday and were recovered before the contacts for the holding of a special congress in the first quarter of 2009. A meeting to which they are very attentive other factions of the party, since its implementation may cause new direct elections for the leadership, only six months of the legislation.

After having said that Francisco Sá Carneiro is the turn in "grave" because of the phrase de Ferreira Leite, yesterday Menezes returned to the load, in statements to Antena 1: "The PSD does not support this for much longer, nor the Portuguese democracy. This is perhaps reflected in a loss of influence that the PSD is not desirable. " For the former Social Democrat chairman, the militants can not "continue to have a direction that the PSD does not make proposals to the country, which does not say what you think about the big national problems, which does not have a strategy for action and that sum Gaffer daily incompetence policy unacceptable. are the comments on the minimum wage, is blaming the journalists about the negative polls, are commenting on Ukrainian and Cape Verde who deserve our appreciation and esteem, are ironies about the benefits of a democracy tempered " .

Also Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa came yesterday to comment on the controversy. At TSF, the former president of the PSD said that sometimes "happen exaggerations" and called for calm in this way: "We need to relativize the statements in which they have to confusion between democracy and dictatorship." The current political commentator adding RTP1 of that "there can be democracies with better or worse quality and there are sacrifices in the quality of democracy." Even on what many believe to be a leader of the PSD gaffa, Marcelo put in boiling water and commented still said the alleged difficulty in making reforms against the professional groups advanced by Manuela Ferreira Leite: "Even if you have the cost of loss elections must not only be exercised if they are really needed reforms. "

The tone is that, even in the means used to Pedro Passos Coelho. The defeated candidate for Ferreira Leite felt that there must be explanations on the case, but said it will not help to punish the leader. Luis All-Good, one of his supporters in direct, tells the DN that the issue "is being exaggerated. Obviously, the sentence is naive and someone who has the heart near the mouth, but there is no reason for this effervescence" . For the former secretary of state for Cavaco, "I'm more worried by the PSD not to take the worst moment of the government."