Political suicide? Chosing the socialist party's interests above national interest.

António José Seguro, 

has been half-heartedly "negotiating" 

with the majority party-leaders of the PSD-CDS, 

during the last few days.

Seguro has been under hellish internal pressure 

from a completely sectarianly divided socialist party.

One one hand he has the opposition of his predeccesor, 

José Socrates, and his hencemen,

 who were responsible for bringing the country to its knees, 

to the verge of complete financial collapse and bankracy, 

having had to beg for a financial bail-out from international creditors.

On the other hand, Seguro had to deal with two extremist socialist dinosaurs, 

 ex-PM/ex President Mário Soares,

who has gone bonkers in the last few months, 

being openly extremist and senile,

and Manuel Alegre, who has always been a non-consequential

revolutionary.

Both these dinosaurs have warned Seguro 

NOT to accept ANY accord 
or make ANY DEAL with the majority governmental parties

in the national interest, 

for that would mean his political suicide.

Many commentators have predicted that whoever refuses 

a national accord, proposed by the President Cavaco Silva, 

would be politically decapitated.

In a poll done by  The "Correio da Manha" Newspaper and Aximage,

53% of those enquired said they want Mr. Pedro Passos Coelho to continue to govern.

25.3% want early elections;

16,9% want the president to chose another PM;

4.1% want the PSD part to chose another PM;

0.7% had no opinion or didn't respond.

But a comfortable majority of 53% want Pedro Passo Coelho as Prime Minister of Portugal.

Having a parliamentary majority with his coalition partner the CDS party, 

the current government still has the overwhelming support of the Portuguese people, 

who prefer a PM who has brought hardships and difficulties to the country, 

but at least has paid the outstanding debts left by the socialists disastrous governance.

Pedro Passo Coelho has helped gain renewed international credibility, 

which Portugal had lost under the Socialists.

Part of the current difficulties, are the rigged timebombs left by the Sócrates

government, of highly toxic swaps which simply "exploded" 

in the hands of the next government, with their unsustainable interest rates.

How can Portugal get out of this mess, 

with the socialist playing innocent virgins, 

and constantly hollering for early elections 

while point-blankly refusing any kind of national compromise, 

for a sustainable future for the country?

Perhaps a collective socialist political suicide would be best, 

at least to save the country from complete destruction.