The article analyses Pedro Passos Coelho's position in Portuguese politics, describing him as an enigma who maintains his own political capital and rare authority, remaining as a grassroots member of the PSD without formal positions. The author argues that Passos Coelho overshadows the current Prime Minister Montenegro, emerging as a reference point for a disillusioned right seeking a new reformist project.
The text severely criticises Montenegro's current government, which is described as prisoner of its silences and hostage to a communication strategy more suited to an electoral campaign than to a constitutional government. Governance is characterised as light, slow and superficial, in a country that needs structural political reconstruction.
The article contextualises the current Portuguese political landscape, where the PS appears moralistic and trapped in the past, while Chega is characterised as vulgar and focused only on the present. This absence of credible political projects for the future opens space for the rise of Passos Coelho as the nation's reserve and reference point for seriousness.
The author concludes that the true leader of the opposition to the government is not within the parties or institutions, but in Passos Coelho's political project. He is preparing to deliver a document with structural reforms to the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic, at a time when, according to the article, Passos Coelho's weight grows as the memory of the troika recedes.
