Marcelo leaves Costa a ‘see you soon’: “There will hardly be any relationships that have continued in such a fluid and supportive way”

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa didn’t say it, but the tone of his farewell to António Costa could have been captioned ‘All’s well that ends well’. It’s not clear that the members of the Government who shared a morning of work with him at the Council of Ministers left with the same feeling (after all, it was Marcelo who accepted the Executive’s resignation), but the President of the Republic and Prime Minister chose to end the eight years of cohabitation in complicit mode. With Marcelo pushing for the best of his relationship with the three socialist Governments will be left for the records of history.

“There was national solidarity. Institutional solidarity transformed into national solidarity”, stated the President, committed to passing on the message that, regardless of the political wars, abuses, humiliations, mockery and dissolutions of Parliament, which marked his relationship with António Costa (Marcelo summarized the curves of this path in “different points of view ” and “divergences”), essentially both gave priority to the national interest.

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