The PS National Jurisdiction (CNJ) Council expelled from the party the former candidate for leadership Daniel Adrião, so far socialist leader. The reason? The candidacy, as independent, of the now former socialist millionaire to the Parish Council of São Vicente, in Lisbon.
The news, advanced by Expresso, was confirmed to DN by Daniel Adrião himself, who said he was “shocked” with the accusation made to him. According to the CNJ, the fact that it “integrates a list contrary to that presented by the PS or the guidelines defined by the competent bodies of the party” It is considered a “disciplinary offense, qualified as a serious misconduct”, thus entitling expulsion.
By the statutes, Daniel Adrião had 10 days to contest the decision, having handed his defense this Friday, October 3. However, The CNJ states that as it is “sustained in documentary evidence”, any appeal is seen as “useless and dilatory” because it is not “embodied in the invocation of the falseness of the proof document”. Faced with this, Daniel Adrião is said to be “dismayed” with this part of the accusation. “The PS has a history of struggle and this kind of methods resembles plenary courts of bad memory,” he says.
Furthermore, The viewed says the accusation “for the form, timing and arguments “invoked. According to the headlord “in front of São Vicente”, The decision to compete in municipalities was already known at least since September 2024, when it was “communicated to the then secretary general, Pedro Nuno Santos”.
“There are flaws in the plan of internal democracy: I was denied the right of choice in the local process, since I should have been heard and summoned to the General Section Assembly, and this did not happen. It is a violation of the right of political participation“criticizes Daniel Adrião.
But the former socialist leader goes further, saying that “there is a fault in the democratic plan.” For that, Recalls the Law of Partieswhere it is read that “the internal discipline of political parties cannot affect the exercise of rights and compliments of duties prescribed in the Constitution and the law.” That is, “one cannot punish someone like that, this hurts to the electoral to the municipal law,” since, in this case, the candidacy of movements of voter citizens such as the one that Daniel Adrião heads in St. Vincent is allowed.