From the outside, a problem for IL. According to him, the proof that the party is different from the others. At the age of 61, João Cotrim Figueiredo recounted his personal and political life and decided to put a final point in the direction of the Liberal Initiative. A goodbye as liberal president, but not a goodbye from the party: he will continue to be a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic and promises not to disappear from the life of the party.
THE surprise, which liberals admit, is even greater because the context and history do not make it predictable: João Cotrim Figueiredo has been president of the Liberal Initiative since 2019 —a position he assumed shortly after being elected the party’s first deputy— and in less than two years , IL won a parliamentary caucus with eight deputies. For many militants, including leaders, the future that was being written had, until this Sunday, a protagonist, who has just lost the IL.
Cotrim Figueiredo considers that “it is in the good times that the difficult decisions and that structure the parties” and insisted on making a difference by showing that the IL is a party different from the others. In the eyes of the liberal, the decision proves the “disengagement from power” and not give up. “There is no escape, on the contrary.”
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Source: Observadora
