The CDS-PP will hold its 30th Congress in Aveiro on Saturday to change the party’s statutes, and will commemorate its 48th anniversary on the same occasion, with interventions by some personalities and a closing ceremony by the president, Nuno Melo.
According to the program, the statutory Congress, which takes place just over three months after the party’s last big meeting, will take place between 9:00 and 14:00 at the Aveiro Congress Center, with about 700 expected participants.
“In the afternoon we will have a moment that takes advantage of the dynamics of the Congress and we will celebrate the anniversary of the party that takes place three days later, on July 19, taking advantage of the possibility of having hundreds of congressmen“, explained to Lusa the MEP and Christian Democrat leader Nuno Melo.
Starting at 3:30 p.m., under the motto “CDS-PP 48 years of history / A party with a future“There will be interventions in sectoral areas of partisan and independent speakers not yet announced, Nuno Melo being the one who will close.
“There will be an opportunity to talk about politics, talk to the country and take stock of these months of governability,” explained the leader.
After the CDS-PP lost parliamentary representation in the legislatures on January 30, one of the objectives of the statutory changes proposed by the table will be “open the party to independents” and value “some of the main assets” of the CDS-PP. PP, proposing, in a more political change, to remove current opinion in the party from the statutes.
In accordance with the proposal to modify the statutes signed by Nuno Melo, the mayors and presidents of the parliaments (autonomous and national) members of the CDS-PP will have a seat in the national political commission and a mayor in the executive commissionthe hard core of management.
Nuno Melo intends create new statutory bodies in the partysuch as an International Relations Office, a Communications Office —in order to professionalize and modernize this area— and a Strategic and Programmatic Support Office, with specific sectoral areas.
“The Executive Committee will have up to three spokespersons and a person in charge of communication, with the status of vice president”, the proposal also mentions, which indicates that the leader of the CDS-PP Madeira, Rui Barreto, will be invited to the position of ‘vice’ that will be vacant with this change.
The creation of three municipal subcoordinators (North, Center and South), new rules for the Senate and for the election of delegates from autonomous bodies (JP and FTDC) are other changes proposed by the management to Congress.
One of the changes that Nuno Melo describes as “minor” will be the extinction of the currents of opinion in the CDS-PP, which were enshrined in the statutes during the presidency of Paulo Portas, formalizing only one, the Tendência Esperança em Movimento (TEM ).
“If there is only one, it shows that the effectiveness of the instrument is nil. You have to know how to identify errors and try to improve, and it was found that the people entrenched in currents with statutory rights focused on processes of ideological purification and that they fought those who did not see themselves in that current”, justified Nuno Melo, saying that “ No party grows by subtracting”.
The president of the CDS-PP stressed that currents of opinion have always existed informally in the partyand they even complemented each other, arguing that “it is absurd” that they have the right to introduce or present global strategy motions.
In addition to the address, former leader Nuno Correia da Silva also presented a broad proposal to revise the statutes, which he says is “in coherence” with the global motion he presented at the last congress (and which ended without going to a vote).
The proposal begins by modifying the article on the purposes of the CDS-PP in the statutes, with the intention of “affirming the party as a party of Social Law, respecting, implementing and promoting the values and principles of Christian democracy.”
“It is time for the party to assume itself as a party of the social right, the party lived under the illusion that its voters were from the center, but we have to be what people expect us to be,” justified the former deputy and leader in the direction, by Manuel Monteiro.
On the other hand, he proposes that the CDS-PP have, together with the current municipal and district organization, a digital-based organization, in which groups of militants “meet for matters of common interest.”
“We cannot continue with the same procedures and expect different results. The party currently lacks prominence and exchanges of opinions take place more and more on the networks and this digital party, which does not yet exist in Portugal, has to be our response to the absence of deputies”, he says.
Nuno Correia da Silva also wants one minimum of 80% of the candidates for deputies of the CDS-PP they are “elected by direct election, in a district or regional assembly, and through uninominal candidacies”, and the others may be appointed by the board.
Considering the board’s proposal to eliminate currents of opinion as “nonsense”, Correia da Silva proposes that the organ extinctions approved next Saturday only come into force after two years.
A third proposal to modify the statutes will also be voted on, delivered by the militant José Augusto Gomes, who argues that “all affiliates must have a response to the queries they raise, both to national and regional organizations, within a period of seven days. skillful” and that the presidents of municipalities and districts cannot be candidates for local, national or European elections.
In the statutory Congress, the obligatory payment of quotas will not be discussed or voted —which is being challenged by the Constitutional Court—, since this provision was already included in the statutes and was only suspended, having been revoked in the National Council.
Source: Observadora
