Opinion
For Nuno Ramos de Almeida, SIC commentator, BE is currently “in a very complicated position from the point of view of electoral results and the reduction in turnout”. An idea shared by David Dinis, deputy director of Expresso. “The Left Bloc is a party that did not know how to break out of its cocoon. It is permanently the same party, around the same people, with great difficulty opening up to internal dialogue”.
Mariana Mortágua announced this weekend (BE). In a letter, sent to activists, he considers that he did not meet the objectives set when he took over coordination of the party in May 2023.
For Nuno Ramos de Almeida, SIC commentator, BE is currently “in a very complicated position from the point of view of electoral results and the reduction in turnout”, However, the problem is not just about the party.
“The truth is that most of the issues that weigh on the Bloco de Esquerda and the left of the PS are not exclusive to Mariana Mortágua and the Bloco de Esquerda, nor are they exclusive to Portugal. There is pressure on the general left that is unable to represent the discontented and is replaced in some way by the extreme right in this role”, begins by saying the SIC commentator.
However, he says, the issue of Mariana Mortágua is “placed in self-criticism” that she herself does, on the one hand, “not being able to counter these external tendencies” and, on the other, “not counteract the narrowing of the Left Bloc”.
“There is a problem in the Bloco de Esquerda which is, even now when Mariana Mortágua left, names appear without the trends coming together, without the convention being held, it is even known who will replace Mariana Mortágua in Parliament. That is, the Bloco cannot, on the one hand, be a party that consults and gives power to its militants, and cannot overcome a party of communication. It depends on the media, when it had to be in agreement with a left in general, in society and in popular areas, and cannot do it”
An idea shared by David Dinis, deputy director of Expresso. “The Left Bloc is a party that did not know how to break out of its cocoon. It is permanently the same party, around the same people, with great difficulty opening up to internal dialogue”.
“I don’t want to be unfair, because I don’t know enough about parties like the Bloco or the Portuguese Communist Party to have a very definitive statement on things, but I hardly understand that it could be a coincidence that the BE and the PCP are losing support at the same time, at different levels, obviously, but, at the same time, LIVRE is gaining support. And I insist, we are in the political wave we are in.”
In the analysis carried out this Monday on the SIC Notícias antenna, Nuno Ramos de Almeida and David Dinis also analyzed the possible candidacy of José Manuel Pureza for the leadership of the Left Bloc and the vote against the Liberal Initiative to the State Budget that will be voted on this afternoon in Parliament.
