Ricardo Araújo Pereira spoke to journalists at the end of the poll in the Pavilion and, once again, reinforced the reasons why he voted for Francisco Benítez, List B candidate, leaving strong criticisms of Rui Costa.
“I voted Francisco Benítez for reasons already known. We were here a year ago and I also voted for the list he was on [João Noronha Lopes]. If that list had won, we probably wouldn’t be here today. I’ve explained mine before. As a player, Rui Costa was extraordinary with the Benfica shirt, but with the tie I still can’t say the same. Therefore, the vote could only be this one. The fact that the partners return to the polls 11 months later shows that the criticisms made in the past were justified”, said the comedian, extending himself.
«Before the last elections, Rui Costa and Luís Filipe Vieira gave a joint interview where the hypothesis of succession at the end of the mandate was put forward. Rui Costa said that it was necessary to be calm and that it took four years to realize if he was prepared and only a year has passed. I would like the Boards of Benfica to fulfill mandates and not have this instability. Rui Costa has sponsored, in recent years, a strategy full of zigzags and, for example, he did not know how to oppose the divestment in the year of the penta [2017/18]. These are impossible things to deny and my vote for Benítez is the result of all this», stressed Ricardo Araújo Pereira.
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