PS deputy Miguel Costa Matos announced this Saturday, in Fundão, Castelo Branco district, his candidacy for the position of secretary general of the Socialist Youth (JS) for the 2022/2024 biennium.
According to a note from JS, Miguel Costa Matos, 26, former economic adviser to the Prime Minister, António Costa, and current vice president of the PS Parliamentary Group, announced his decision at a meeting of the National Commission of this body. youth.
With a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and a master’s degree in economics from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Miguel Costa Matos was elected leader of the JS for the first time in 2020, succeeding Deputy María Begonha.
The last leader of the JS who served two terms in the direction of this organization was the current deputy general secretary of the PS, João Torres (2012/2016).
“Ecology, progress and the leftIt will be the motto that will accompany the second candidacy of Miguel Costa Matos for the position of secretary general of JS, after a first term in which he claims to have achieved several “legislative advances.”
JS highlights diplomas such as the climate law, the right to be forgotten, the reinforcement of the executive capacities of the ACT (Authority for Working Conditions), the possibility for LGBT+ men to donate blood and the travel supplement in study scholarships superiors.
For the new two-year cycle, the general secretary of the JS, in case of being re-elected, assumes as main objectives “the end of all unpaid internshipsgender equality in parental leave and the increase in the public supply of housing to lower housing prices.
“The responsibility of the majority of the PS is also ours. We want to be the voice of young Portuguese and take action. At the confluence of crises that we are experiencing today, we need a strong, close and bold youth organization, we want to challenge the PS to act more, be it in housing, salary increases, education, territorial cohesion and even the legalization of cannabis”, wrote Miguel Costa Matos.
“We are not complacent or self-righteous,” he added.
Source: Observadora
