The current deputy of the Liberal Initiative, Carla Castro, who competed with Rui Rocha for the leadership of the Liberals at the national convention in January this year, revealed that she will not be on the lists in the next parliamentary elections on March 10, 2024 of the party will appear.
In a statement to the National Council of the Liberal Initiative (IL), to which DN had access, Carla Castro, who was second on the list for Lisbon in the 2022 parliamentary elections (only after then-leader João Cotrim Figueiredo), said that she made the decision after being invited by the party’s vice-president, Ricardo Pais de Oliveira, to take seventh place on the lists for the capital circle, or “eventually fifth or sixth”, after deciding not to do so accept.
Carla Castro’s descent from the lists of a party that elected only four deputies for Lisbon in the last parliamentary elections was considered very likely within the party, taking into account the deputy’s distance from the rest of the parliamentary group.
In the statement to the National Council, the current deputy, who is recovering from a surgical procedure, assures that she has demonstrated her availability, “obviously under normal political working conditions, to include the list of IL deputies in the next parliamentary elections. for the Lisbon constituency”.
“I am and remain a liberal, reformist and practitioner of constructive unrest. I remain an economist, a manager and myself. A cycle is now closed, in the near future I will reconsider my role in active political life,” wrote Carla Castro, and added that she remains convinced that “if we fight according to what we believe, public life is always worthwhile.”
(being updated)
Source: DN
