Sócrates, Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy are toxic leaders

Manuel Maria Carrilho, 

ex-minister of Culture 

of the Socialist government of José Sócrates, 

said on "The news at 9" on SIC TV, 

that José Sócrates' return to portuguese politics,

has had "negative consequences" for himself, 

for the Socialist Party and for Portugal.

Carrilho placed Sócrates on the same level as Berlusconi, 

Nicolas Sarkozy and called them:

"toxic leaders".

He said Sócrates froze in time. 

His interview on TV could have been any interview 

taken from 2011 or earlier.

He didn't learn anything from his mistakes, 

nor did he change.

It was as if "he was frozen in 2011 and then defrosted in 2013".

Carrilho said that Sócrates was too slow in political reaction:

"it took Sócrates TWO YEARS to admit any evidence of a crisis, 

after saying in 2007 that there was no crisis whatsoever;

only to wake up to the crisis in 2009;

And it took him TWO YEARS to realize 

that he shouldn't have formed a minority government in 2009, 

while been hit by the sovereign debt crisis;

and another TWO YEARS before admitting his mistake in 2013!" 

Unfortunately, what Carrilho didn't say, 

was that Sócrates dragged his feet for nearly a year 

BEFORE asking for international aid from the "troika".

If he had made the request earlier, 

Portugal wouldn't have sunk so deep into misery!!

The portuguese expected to see a change in his style, 

what did he learn during his absence, what is new?

But NO! nothing has changed from 2011.

Carillho considers "that the former socialist leader 

has intruded into the socialist party's affairs,

which has reached a new consensus within the party".

"Appearing now with all this strength, against the SP's current narrative, 

only embarrasses the party, causing total silence from its leaders.

Sócrates' narrative is tied to the past, 

while the current socialist party wants to turn around and face the future".

"José Socrates does NOTHING without a purpose.

He knows what he is doing. 

He is undermining the party".

"If the country gives any credibility to Sócrates' interview, 

it would be trapped between 2011 and the failure of the current government, 

as if, forever trapped between the plague and the colera, 

without being entitled to a new future".