Damages caused by the “silencing and misrepresentation” of partisan positions; a “sudden call for early legislatures”; and the negative impact of a “bad result in the municipal elections”. The blackboard could even be confused with a summary of the difficulties that the PCP is currently going through, but all this is part of the diagnosis that the party made in 2002, when it was at a crossroads between an internal crisis and the difficulties to face the absolute majority from the height. Conclusion: the PCP was, he confessed at the time, worried about his recognition “serious loss of electoral influence”.
We have reached 2022 and the table, discounting the many variables that have changed – the Prime Minister is now António Costa and not Durão Barroso, the elections were held this time thanks to the end of the contraption and not, as at that time, because of a “sudden” dismissal (that of António Guterres) – it is the same. In other words: huge difficulty for the party—and a clear loss of influence, electoral but not only. And the solution found is also the same: the convocation of a national conferencein this case scheduled for November 12 and 13.
It is an acknowledgment that the party is once again going through moments of serious crisis, navigating between internal and external difficulties, a kind of hit the paybackparty sources explain to the Observer, using the party’s biggest instrument between congresses.
And could it be more than that? In the PCP it is recalled that the conference itself has nothing to do, formally, with the process of changing leaders, and both current and former leaders leave the issue of succession for later. But there are also those who believe that this would be, at least, a “dignified” way of marking the beginning of the farewell to Jerome de Sousawho has served as Secretary-General for almost 18 years.
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Source: Observadora
