At the 16th Congress in Porto, the party is centered on the strategy for the October municipal elections,
O It organizes its 16th Congress in Porto today, centered on the party’s strategy for the October municipal elections, which already has almost half a hundred candidates, half resulting from left coalitions.
According to the party’s program, the Magna meeting will start at 9:30 am at the São Bento da Vitória Monastery, and will end at 19:00, with speeches by the October 12 municipal elections and interventions of spokesmen Rui Tavares and Isabel Mendes Lopes.
Congress also marks the ‘Rentreé’ Free Politics.
The meeting was initially scheduled for September 6th and 7th, also in Porto, but the free reacting to this week due to the accident with the Glory Elevator that caused 16 dead and several injuries earlier this month.
This year, according to the party’s official source, a total of forty -nine candidacies, the free source has 25 coalitions on the left, being his great bets Lisbon (headed by socialist Alexandra Leitão, who joins PS, Livre, Be and Pan), Sintra (with socialist Ana Mendes Godinho to be supported by PS and Free) and Porto, where the party candidate Hélder Sousa.
In total, the free will go up with PS, BE and Pan in Lisbon, Albufeira and Ponta Delgada; only with the PS in Felgueiras and Sintra; with Pan and PS in Póvoa de Varzim and Trofa; with the independents (citizens by Coimbra), PS and Pan in Coimbra; With the independent movement “Evolve Oeiras”, Be and Volt to Oeiras; with Be and Pan in Cascais, Figueira da Foz, Leiria, Loures, Odivelas, Portimão, Silves and Santiago do Cacém; And only with Be in Almada, Barreiro, Castelo Branco, Loulé, Odemira, Santarém, Seixal and Vila Nova de Gaia.
It also presents lists of Amadora, Aveiro, Barcelos, Braga, Caldas da Rainha, Entroncamento, Faro, Funchal, Gondomar, Lakes, Matosinhos, Montijo, Oliveira de Azeméis, Paços de Ferreira, Penafiel, Peniche, Porto, Rio Maior, Saint Maria da Feira, Sesimbra, Setúbal, Tomiana, Vila Franca de Xira Real.
None of the six deputies in the Assembly of the Republic will be municipal candidate.
In the last municipal elections, in 2021, the Livre won eight local elected, which still has: a councilman in Lisbon (Rui Tavares), a municipal deputy in Lisbon (Isabel Mendes Lopes), Oeiras, Felgueiras and Vila Real de Santo António and three members at the Parish Assemblies of Penha de França, Lumiar and Carnaxide.
