“Time to start over”? There come difficult days for Mariana Mortágua

Direction will face four internal opposition motions in the 14th National Convention. Direction admits “own mistakes” in its motion, but denounces systematic offensive against the block.

The direction of BE, led by Mariana Mortágua, recognizes that you have made mistakes that led to the electoral fall and will face Four Opposing Motions In the 14th National Convention, which point out lack of internal democracy and ask for more attention to the foundations.

Blame for the “turning on the right” – but there were “own mistakes”

In addition to the ‘A’ orientation motion, headed by Mariana Mortágua, and the ‘S’ motion, which Lusa had already reported on the 27th, which will be re-applied to the Magna meeting in November, three more texts were released this Thursday: the motion ‘B’, titled “Reconstruct to a new political cycle”the motion ‘C’, “More block, less trends” and the motion ‘h’, which he considers he is in “Time to start over.”

In the current direction of the current direction, which brings together more than 600 subscribers, Mariana Mortágua acknowledges that she has a “militant party in reconfiguration,” after the legislatures in May, which led the party to the unique representation in Parliament.

Insisting that the loss of confidence of its electoral base must be explained by the “turn on the right,” the direction admits “own mistakes.”

“The response of the direction to the systematic offensive against the bloc, limited to isolated responses and without a whole response, fed a mistake that aggravated the party’s public wear and tear,” they argue.

Given the loss of subsidy, BE “will be essentially self-financed”, warns the current direction, which stresses the importance of “payment of quotas, militant effort, or voluntary work in technical and managers”. Mortágua is committed to increasing the mechanisms of internal democracy, which is the main criticism of the opposition.

“Ideological Dilution”

The motion ‘S’, subscribed by about 90 militants, includes elements that joined the list of Mariana Mortágua at the national table at the last party convention in 2023, such as leader Adelino Fortunato or former deputies to the Assembly of the Republic Heitor Sousa and Alexandra Vieira.

These blocks keep the alerts about the possibility of a “Ideological Dilution” and point out the lack of internal democracy as the “main factor of fragility” of the party.

“Excessive proximity to the PS”

The ‘B’ motion, which adds 36 subscribers, points to a “growing crystallization of practices that favor the reproduction of centralized and hierarchical power logics, even if covered with apparent opening”.

These blocks suggest that the party direction be elected in universal suffrage, “without delegates.”

The motion ‘B’ criticizes the political line adopted by the current direction, “often ambiguouswhich followed a based trajectory in the institutional dispute, in the center, in a Route of departure from the founding matrix“And point their finger at” excessive proximity to the PS “and a” parliament-electoral couch “that” emptied the protest space on the left. “

Time, partido “anti-system”

Also in a line of greater “radicality of socialist solutions”, the subscribers of the motion ‘H’ They want the BE to be the “anti-system” party again.

These militants ask for “a less lost party in lost steps” and “more finding in struggles”, and regret that the BE has “stigmatized divergence”, suggesting the limitation of mandates and rotation in the organs.

Some are more moderate

The motion ‘C’, with 39 subscribers, converges with the rest in criticism of the lack of internal democracy, necessary “as of bread to the mouth.”

Despite showing opening to dialogue with the motions ‘H’ and ‘S’, they leave various criticisms of the ‘S’ motion and the “Convergence” movement, which generated the old motion ‘and’, headed by Pedro Soares.

These blocks are more moderate and reject “radicalizations.”

“We must graduate our positions, without, however, abandoning our socialist principles, because we need to recover the PS floating electorate, who in these elections turned our backs, preferring to vote freely.”

In the text, they even suggest a pre-election coalition with free in future elections to circumvent the problem of the “wasted votes.”