A group of dissidents from Volt Portugal, including former president Tiago Matos Gomes, intends to create the European Democratic Party, a movement that calls itself trans-European and political center, and run in the 2024 European elections.
Contacted by Lusa, Tiago Romão, former campaign manager for Volt in the legislative elections in January this year for the Lisbon circle and now as vice president of this movement that wants to become a party, said that the leadership is made up of dissidents who “ they did not fit into the new policies of Volt Portugal and Volt Europa, which were completely to the left”.
We are in the center! The nucleus’ [do Partido Democrata Europeu] at the moment they are dissidents [do Volt] for reasons of ideals and political principles,” he added.
Tiago Matos Gomes, founder of Volt Portugal and former president, intends to occupy the same position in the European Democratic Party, which wants to use the acronym PDE.
The PDE calls itself a “trans-European, Eurofederalist, central, moderate and reformist” party, according to information made available to the media.
Together with the creation of the PDE, the European Stars Party was also born, a mother party, of a European character and the first trans-European party born in Portugal. […]. A change in the European political structure is necessary, which in our project should follow a semi-presidential model with the election of a European president by universal suffrage. […]. In addition to the president, who will be responsible for foreign policy and the armed forces, there will also be a senate, a parliament with legislative initiative, and an executive government.
From the perspective of this new force, “structural policies must be common” to the Member States, which will have “the freedom to maintain their autonomy and national identity”.
To form a party it is necessary to formalize it before the Constitutional Court (TC).
The statutes are practically closed, the collection of signatures is missing,” said Tiago Romão, who set a goal of delivering 7,500 signatures by June 2023, which will allow the TC to legalize the party in time to compete in the 2024 European Championships, he said. leader.
Until now, the party has between “ten to 15 militants” and the first point of contact with citizens to summon supporters and collect signatures will be at the Lisbon Book Fair, between August 25 and September 11.
Source: Observadora
