José Sena Goulão / Lusa
Pan leader Inês Sousa Real.
This Sunday was released an open letter that asks for the evaluation of the current PAN board. The leadership of the party, headed by Inês Sousa Real, is accused of dodging the “founding values.”
An open letter subscribed by Former Pan Dirigents asks for an assessment of the party’s management “without fear of having to change”, accusing the current leadership to deviate from “founding values”.
In an open letter released on the Internet directed to affiliated people, sympathizers and PAN leaders, the 35 signatories, including former drinkers Cunha, Anabela Castro, Nuno Pires, Miguel Queirós or Carolina Pia, point out that they all “have their history within the PAN” and recall the release of the foundations of the political projects in 2009.
The signatories, among which are several names that resigned from the direction In recent months, they have considered that the current leadership “does not face their own mistakes and failures” and has had a mandate marked “by internal misunderstandings, various political defeats, power struggles that have become more important than the party’s mission and a culture of removal from internal criticism.”
“The current leadership has been moving away from the founding values of PAN, when it systematically takes decisions contrary to its genesis and incomprehensible before the principles of the party. The options that are being based on a logic of mere strategy of political survival, in which the ends have justified the means, ”they criticize.
Speaking to, Pedro Ribeiro and Castro accuses the party leader Inês Sousa Real to be authoritarian and not have self -criticism.
“From the moment they hear dissonant voices and do not accept criticism, This is an autocracy. Inês never had a spirit of self -criticism“Said the municipal deputy of Pan in Gaia, who subscribes to the letter.
Ribeiro e Castro considers that the party leader should consider the resignationstating that “leaders of parties who cannot achieve electoral goals, whether electoral or internal, resign.”
“Incomprehensible coalitions”
Regarding the authority of 12 October, the signatories point to “the absence of a coherent strategy”, which results in “in single coalitions, without ideologically understandable criteria, based on promises of positions or lack of their own political projects.”
“There are coalitions, natural in democracy, which are acceptable, because they are made with political forces whose values can converge with the PAN. However, coalitions with ideologically opposite and distant parties are completely incomprehensible, namely those that allow the practice of environmental crimes or who advocate the promotion of bullfighting,” he said.
O Pan integrates coalitions with PSD and IL in Sintra and with these two parties and the CDS-PP, em Farofor example.
Signatories leave a collective appeal to stop and evaluate the current course, “before it is too late and the PAN disappears or becomes another political and social ideas.”
“Without fear of having to change. It must be remembered that PAN is more than the sum of its people and that its ideology is more important than any kind of interests, ”they say.
The subscribers ensure “committed to the values and mission of the PAN in Portuguese society” and leave what they classify as a “simple and ambitious appeal”.
“Evaluate the path that has been traced, Reposition the party in its matrix Ideological, whether in strategic thinking or in your communication, and rebuild the PAN from this assessment and meaning of mission. Listen, with humilitythose who are and those who have moved away for not being revealed in the present PAN, ”they ask.
And they release a question: “Is Pan still being faithful to the principles that claims to defend? Is Pan helping the causes, or to disregard them?”
The open letter ends by asking that “all voices are listened to – especially those that remain faithful to the original project and do not prove in the current direction.”
“We believe that a new path is possible and that the PAN can-and should-be the lighthouse that illuminates the future (…) we will hear, with the hope that the pan can be fulfilled! It’s time!”, They appeal.
On Saturday, confronted with recent internal layoffs, Pan spokeswoman Inês Sousa Real considered that the exits were from people who “were not compromised” either to their agenda or the party.
