António Cotrim / Lusa
Former deputy Pedro Soares, from the Left Block
The members of the internal opposition of the BE associated with the former motion ‘and’ accused this Saturday the party’s direction of rehearsing a “escape forward” in the face of the electoral results of the legislatures and proposed the resignation of the Political Commission.
In a statement sent to the press, the members of the former motion ‘and’, whose spokesman was the former deputy Pedro Soaresthey state that “the proposal of political resolution presented by the secretariat to the national table recognizes that the left block has the Worst result in your historybut does not remove any consequences on the wrong assessment of reality and political orientation followed, or the role of direction. ”
From the perspective of these blocks, the current direction of BE “delay this analysis and balance” when wanting “New postponement of the XIV Convention”, Currently scheduled for November 1st and 2nd, and” chooses to go into survival mode, with serious damage to the block. “
“It can only be concluded that The secretariat does not want to face with humility democratic is new and deep electoral defeatpreferring to exceed an escape forward to avoid recognition of its political exhaustion by accumulating successive defeats, the disbelief and removal of the popular concerns and yearnings to which the block led, ”reads the statement.
In the text, the members of the motion ‘and’ claim that they proposed to the national table, “in conjunction with Motion S” (who presented to the next convention as an alternative to Mariana Mortágua), the dismissal of the current political committee and the election of a new to direct BE to the conventionwith a composition that included “the various sensitivities present, capable of opening the block to the plural debate.”
These members also refused the proposal to postpone the convention, arguing that “only serves to delay balance and responsibilitiesprolong the permanence of the current secretariat anti-statutoryly for more half a year, expecting the political effect of defeat to cool, and slow the recovery of the bloc’s political combat capacity. ”
However, according to the statement, “most (motion A)”, led by Mariana Mortágua, “voted against these proposals, based on Fallen arguments formal.
“The big failure to the statutes is the consecutive postponement of the conventionnow for the end of November, ”says. at the end of May 2023when Mariana Mortágua was elected party coordinator for a two -year term.
At this magna meeting, the list of Mariana Mortágua won 67 two 80 places the Missour of the rest were attributed to the list ‘and’, headed by Pedro Soares – an internal current that has already announced that won’t advance with an application in the next convention.
On the 18th, the blocks obtained their in legislative elections, with 154,818 votes compared to 2024 and passing from five parliamentarians to A single deputy: the leader, Mariana MortáguaLisbon Head.
In February, four elements of the motion ‘and’, Elisa Antunes, Gabriela Mota Vieira, Pedro Soares and Ricardo Salabert, from BE, following the controversy with those in 2022.
