The Laboratory of Political Action of the Liberal Initiative (ILab), the evolution of the engineering office, was launched by the party this Wednesday, for which an advisory board has been set up with civil society personalities in various fields.
According to the communiqué sent to the Lusa bureau, the IL begins the “reorganization of the engineering bureau with the establishment of the ILab Advisory Board”, launching this lab with “the aim of deepening political reflection in the party and programmatic and legislative proposals”.
The research component “will be the backbone of the ILab”, with the Liberals expecting this structure to “develop medium/long term projects, supporting the party and its elected representatives at local, regional, national and ultimately European level”.
The function of the ILab Advisory Board will mainly be “advising in the orientation and development of proposals that will contribute to the quality of the political debate in Portugal”.
“Likewise, they will contribute their experience and ‘know-how’ to the most emblematic projects that the party wants to present to the country, always from the point of view of total independence,” the party assures.
According to the information provided, the ILab advisory board will include names from civil society such as writer Bruno Vieira Amaral, cyclist David Rosa, university professors Francisco Pereira Coutinho and Graça Canto Moniz, jurists Henrique Burnay and Vera Chaves, professor and researcher at the Portuguese Catholic University Inês Gregório, the lawyer and former member of the CDS Inês Teotónio Pereira or the lawyers José Pedro Anacoreta Correia and Marta Carvalho Esteves.
The specialist in economic geology and mineral exploration Luís Chambel, the professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto Manuel Mota Freitas, the economists Pedro Brinca and Vera Gouveia Barros, the businessman and consultant Pedro Sampaio Nunes, the former Secretary of State for Employment Pedro Silva Martins and the president of the Associação Empresarial do Minho Ricardo Costa also form this advisory structure.
Ana Vasconcelos Martins, responsible for ILab and vice president of IL, explained that “given the rapid growth of the Liberal Initiative, the need arose to reorganize the engineering office to better articulate its activities with other party structures, which in the meantime also received a greater dimension”.
“It is a great source of pride to have these personalities who will certainly ensure greater openness of the liberal initiative to civil society and who, thanks to their knowledge, will bring more quality to the political debate in the country,” said the president from IL, Rui Rocha, also quoted in the same statement.
Source: DN
