The National Council took 13 hours to define three fundamental issues: the VII Convention of the Liberal Initiative will be held on January 21 and 22, in Lisbon; and the lists to the organs can be presented until January 6; and only those who were already militants until today will be able to vote and participate in that election. For the rest, the programmatic differences of the two well-known candidates have not yet been discussed, and the greatest tension even came from a symbol of the party’s past.
Fifteen days separated the announcement of João Cotrim Figueiredo, who decided to leave the leadership of the party, and the day of the decisions that the party had to make. fifteen days with two candidacies — Rui Rocha, who has the support of Cotrim Figueiredo and a large part of the party’s elite, and Carla Castro, who has opted to conquer the bases — and with threats that within the party there is room for more names to appear, specifically in the opposition it has been marked by the most conservative wing.
It was before a climate that turned hotter in the past two weeks that dozens of advisers (some remotely) have joined a discussion that was expected more ideological than technical and that ended up turning over points of the regiment for the next Convention, dozens of proposals and detailed discussions (even by changes of commas).
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Source: Observadora
