The proposal to revise the statutes, presented by the National Political Committee of the PSD, was approved by a large majority, in a vote that took place with hands in the air and that ended before lunchtime, which would have been the aim of the 41st Congress of the Social Democrats. However, no parliamentary elections were scheduled for March 10, 2024.
Luís Montenegro highlighted the “demonstration of unity and cohesion” resulting from the approval of the work carried out by an evaluation committee formed by Vice President Miguel Pinto Luz, Secretary General Hugo Soares, former Deputy Matos Correia and the former President of the Council Paulo Colaço National jurisdiction.
Despite the approval of the document, which did not have a three-fifths majority of congress members, there was criticism of several changes to the statutes in the municipal sports complex of the city of Almada. Former deputy André Pardal criticized, as he told DN in this Saturday’s print edition, that it would have been necessary to go further and move towards the direct election of the party chairman. And he wondered “whether wokism has reached the PSD” because of the imposition of gender quotas (at least 40% men or women) on the lists for the party’s internal bodies.
Congressman António Alvim, one of those who put forward the hypothesis to present an alternative revision proposal, in turn claimed to have been ignored when listening to party structures and figures.
The approved revision proposal, which includes changes such as the creation of Councils of First Instance, located in the North, Center and South, with the aim of accelerating internal justice in the party, was defended by Miguel Pinto Luz as an addition of transparency. in the internal functioning of the party.
The general secretary of the PSD, Hugo Soares, also spoke about transparency, but also about the party’s openness towards civil society and women. But even in these interventions it was always clear that the change in circumstances resulting from the resignation of António Costa and the planning of early elections would advise speed in this part of the work.
“I will do everything I can to ensure that the Congress is eminently political in the eyes of the Portuguese,” the president of the Congress board, Miguel de Albuquerque, warned at the start of the proceedings. The president of the regional government of Madeira also contributed to the political struggle by stating that “where the left rules, nothing is allowed”.
Source: DN
