The dismissal president of the District Coordinating Committee of Portalegre do Be, Higino Maroto, explained that abandoned the party “73 militants”in a universe of “more than two hundred” of militants.
More than 70 militants from among which those responsible for the District Coordinating Commission and the Councils, resigned from the party, for disagreement with the national direction, was announced on Tuesday.
Speaking to the Lusa Agency, the dismissal president of the District Coordinating Committee of Portalegre do Be, Higino Maroto, explained that abandoned the party “73 militants”in a universe of “more than two hundred” of militants.
“But from two hundred, in addition to the 73 that resigned, there is a large set that is in complete inactivity, are militants who had activity but have ceased to have over time,” he warned.
The reasons
A lack of supportos layoffs qEU occurred in BE and internal disagreement It was some of the reasons that led to the taking of this position, according to Higino Maroto.
“We disagree with the way the direction has come to treat the party in the district over the years, with the support, then also our own divergences with the direction, in the sense that we do not agree with the policy that has been done.” , he said.
Hygino Maroto also recognizes that the party’s strategy for this year’s municipal elections is in that Alentejo region.
“We have been coming to criticism over this time, and at this moment we come to a situation that it is impossible to continue in the party,” he added.
The last party defeats in the elections and the discharges of BE employeesthey have come, according to Higino Maroto to motivate criticism of the direction.
In a note sent to the management of the BE, to which Lusa had access, the spokesman for Portalegre’s resignee and former district coordinator of the party, António Ricardo, also regrets the discharge of party officials.
“It is with great hurt that we make the decision to fireand a party that was once hope and a reference in terms of ethics and political morals and that the last cases coming to public about the goods and their employees and their employees has more disbelief in the Block Left, “reads the note.
In the document, António Ricardo also regrets that the party has followed a path that guides “constant violation” of your internal democracyand by the “way how treated and dealt” with the structure of the BE in the district of Portalegre.
For the dismissal, the national direction of the BE considers that in Portalegre “There is no critical mass” and, for this reason, “it was not worth investing.”
“Situation that has been common in other interior districts, along with the sloping of its policy for social democracy paths, where only the goal is to ensure places,” they add to the note.
Questioned by Lusa, the management of the BE replied that “the detachment of a party is an act that requires a individual communication“and” so far “only” five detachment communications from Portalegre District were received. “