Miguel A. Lopes / Lusa
Inês de Sousa Real and Pedro Fidalgo Marques (Pan)
Anabela Castro and Nuno Pires sent a statement to announce their departure – but supposedly the statement would be only internal.
Two members of the National Political Commission of PAN elected by the current leader’s list, Inês de Sousa Real, fired, accusing the direction of disrespect for internal democracy, centralization of power and silencing critics.
The two members in question are Anabela Castro and Nuno Pireselected to the PAN National Political Commission – the highest management body between congresses – by list A, affects leader Inês de Sousa Real, and broadcast the decision through a statement sent on May 18, shortly before the closing of the Legislative Elections.
According to Lusa, in the statement, Anabela Castro and Nuno Pires justify his departure with the “disagreement With the current direction of the party’s internal management ”, claiming that PAN was no longer“ the ethical, respectful and plural, respective space that differentiated it in the national political panorama ”.
“The current direction (or part of it) reveals a view too self -centered and autocratica, who is not responsible for the results, exits and discontent that the party has systematically suffered, opting instead of create narratives of betrayal and abandonmentwith attacks on any position or criticism divergent from the current ‘status quo’, ”one reads.
Anabela Castro and Nuno Pires accuse the direction of silence as divergences And attack critics, lamenting that the political committee meetings are a “pro-form to fulfill calendar, where the strategy focuses on power games, rather than causes.”
“The centralism of decisions and the growing marginalization of critical voices reflect a drift that we consider serious and that undermines the confidence of whom, like us, believed that it was possible to make politics differently. Our presence and participation in this commission became thus became, thus became, thus became unsustainable ”, add.
Internally, the two members point “unacceptable” situations of limitation of the internal debatehighlighting the short time – 12 hours – between the approval of the 2025 electoral program and its public dissemination, “without any real possibility of analysis and contributions as always made until then.”
Advertisement should only be internal
This statement was made known by Lusa on Thursday. The following day, Friday, the same dismissal members of the PAN National Political Commission criticized the public disclosure of this statement. Consider that it was Internal information.
In a statement sent to the PAN Political Commission table and Lusa Agency, Anabela Castro and Nuno Pires stress that The text of the dismissal indicated that this information should not be reproducedand it was done “based on the assumption that there are their own spaces to say what is considered necessary”, in a party and that “it has not to be exposed in any public communication body.”
The two dismissal members lament that “people who have access to information that is communicated but not their own” if Enjoy “Internal information to expose the party”stressing that this is a behavior in which they do not review.
“If you want to do it, do it through your own actions, not using information that belongs to the party’s internal forum,” says Anabela Castro and Nuno Pires, adding that “there are organs to talk about what is necessary to change or review, but these are not clearly the media.”
The two members believe that the disclosure of information from the party’s internal forum only “prevents from transparency e honesty in the future, for the fear of information escape out of the party. ”
Anabela Castro and Nuno Pires emphasize that the “importance of the statement remains”, but condemn its dissemination, considering that “their disbursement is a perfect lack of respect and ethics of those who made it public”.
