Before LFM was elected President of PSD, his party colleague JPP made his views widely known about him. It was clear for everyone who read JPP in the newspapers, in his blog and saw him on TV that he was not a supporter of LFM. Then, came election day and LFM won, despite JPP.
From this moment on, a true democrat in the place of JPP would have shut up in an attitude of respect for the majoritarian decision of the people of his party. He would now support the new party's leader helping him to carry out his mandate and would wait until the next election to speak out his mind about LFM again.
JPP exhorbitant individualism, typical of Catholic culture, and false sense of freedom weighted more than his democratic sentiments. In absolute disregard for the democratic decision of the people of his party, he continued to speak out his mind against LFM. What he was doing now - even though he was not alone at it - was truly undermining the leadership of LFM and the idea of democracy.
What would have happened to JPP if he had done the same thing in a country with a true democratic tradition like, say, the USA? Well, everybody from his and other parties would fall on him saying: "Shut up!", and he would have shut up under the irresistible pressure of a strong, democratic public opinion. In Portugal, though, he could even find lots of democrats supporting him in this mostly anti-democratic attitude.
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