Starting by stressing that “you cannot control the vote count” and that “when there is a recount of votes you cannot say ‘stop’ at a given moment”, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed that the counting of the results of the emigrants’ votes “has ended when it ended.”
“It was important for the country that the prime minister-designate participated today in Brussels as future prime minister – if he were to form a government – in important meetings”, defended the head of state, who nominated Luís Montenegro in the early hours of this Thursday.
The president was speaking to journalists at the end of a visit to Futurália, an education, training and employability fair, in Lisbon.
“It was important that he met with the Prime Minister in officeto meet with the president of the European Commission, to meet with the members of the EPP who will be at the European Council tomorrow”, he added.
The President of the Republic explained that as the topics discussed in Brussels “are very, very heavy”, including issues such as the war in Ukraine or the Middle East, “It didn’t make sense that [Montenegro] tomorrow he would be nominated while in Brussels”.
Marcelo also added that it was the president of the PSD who “asked for this to happen” and that it was a “sacrifice”, as he left Lisbon at one in the morning for Porto, where this Thursday he caught the plane to Brussels.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa considered that the country understood that the nomination took place early in the morning, after the counting of all votes from emigration circles had finished.
Asked if it would be necessary to accelerate the calendar of the next Governmentthe head of state stated that the process “has gone as it should and with great naturalness”.
When he was leaving Futurália, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa crossed paths with Chega’s leader, André Ventura, who was arriving at the Lisbon International Fair (FIL).
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