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After controversy, Rui Moreira will not be AD candidate for the European elections

The President of the Porto City Council will have refused to join the Democratic Alliance lists.

After controversy, Rui Moreira will not be AD candidate for the European elections
Notícias ao Minuto

18:55 - 22/04/24 por Notícias ao Minuto com Lusa

Política Europeias

Rui Moreira will not be a candidate in the European elections in June, according to SIC Notícias and the newspaper Público.

Apparently, the Mayor of Porto has refused to be on the lists of the Democratic Alliance (AD), since he might not be the first name on the list chosen by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro.

Therefore, Rui Moreira should complete his third and final term as Mayor, which should end in October 2025.

It is worth remembering that today PSD and CDS-PP will hold a meeting of the National Councils of both parties to vote on the candidates for the European Parliament and approve a change to the name of the pre-electoral coalition AD, with which they will run in the elections.

The top candidate for the AD is not yet officially known - but Rui Moreira's name was pointed out as the most likely by several media outlets -, however it is already known that only one of the PSD members elected in 2019 will be able to run again as a candidate for MEP: Lídia Pereira, recently elected vice-president of the European People's Party, and who was the "number two" four years ago, in a bet by the then PSD president, Rui Rio.

Today, PSD Porto members and mayors, including Vladimiro Feliz, who was the PSD candidate for the Porto City Council, demonstrated against the national leadership's intention to nominate Rui Moreira as the top candidate for the European elections.

The signatories consider it to be "a betrayal of the people of Porto, the members, supporters and mayors elected by the PSD", stating that they have no doubt that "it will leave a deep mark on the trust that the people of Porto have in the PSD".

Read Also: Rangel says that criticism of Rui Moreira by mayors "has no relevance whatsoever" (Portuguese version)

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