PSD's half-term analysis

Halfway through its term, PSD (Social Democrat Party) is seeing its image eroded by the inherent reform costs and by the “political actions of our adversaries” in the opposition, who “imposed on the public opinion certain perceptions conveying a powerful negative message, such as the PSD being a State-Party, a party of the corrupt and of local barons.” This is one of the conclusions included in “PSD’s political strategy for 2003” endorsed by the Central Executive Bureau of the ruling party on Tuesday. The document warns the PSD members that the “hypothesis about us being faced with a weak and scattered opposition” is no longer real, as shown by the coagulation trend of the “PD (Democrat Party) – PNL (National Liberal Party) conglomerate”, which has led to “increasingly incisive and consistent political attacks” against PSD. ZF