Sócrates and April's Fool Day

According to TV commentator , Luis Marques Mendes, 

José Sócrates' return to an active political role 

as TV commentator in Portugal, as from beginning April,

is heavily impreganated with Sócrates' personal political ambition.

Sócrates pretends to clean up his image 

as one of the most hated Portuguese politicians,

 to run as an eventual presidential candidate in 2 years' time.

Sócrates as President??

What?? Has April Fool's Day been anticipated by a week??

After leaving the country in utter bankruptcy and at the mercy of international agencies,

having to beg for a deseparately needed financial bailout, 

Sócrates has only a filthy political "crime-sheet" to boast of,

as his over-spending government was rife in corruption, 
favouritism of cronies,

with gross mismanagement of tax-payers' money, 

to mention but a few.

Left at the mercy of the "troika", 

the current government has no say in its own financial policy, 

no sovereign liberty in deciding the country's fiscal budget -

it only has to implement the much needed state reforms, 

cut on excessive state spending,

impose increase taxes, 

as required by the strict troika measures. 

Portugal had 

NO INTERNATIONAL CREDIBILITY,

when Sócrate threw in the towel, resigned and fled to Paris.

Now the man responsible for all the misery, increased poverty, 
ruin, desperation and intense suffering 

which tens of thousand unemployed portuguese families have to endure, 
facing only a bleak future, or none at all,

wants to be elected as the next Portuguese President??

Never heard a more ridiculous April Fool's joke before!!