Spokesperson and founder of Livre Rui Tavares concludes this Sunday the XIII Party Congress in Porto, which will also approve the electoral program for the March legislative elections.
Work begins with the approval of the final version of the electoral program after 163 amendments to the first version of the document have been presented and discussed, followed by a period of about three hours with speeches by all leaders of the Livre legislative list.
The closure will be the responsibility of the sole MP and leader of the list from Lisbon, Rui Tavares, whose speech should be more focused on the country, with an emphasis on the March elections in which the party wants to elect a wider parliamentary group. than two deputies.
The date of the next congress will also be put to a vote, with members and supporters yet to decide whether they should combine preparing an electoral program for the June European elections and electing new domestic bodies at the same main meeting.
The first day discussed some of the proposals included in Livre’s preliminary program for the legislature, such as allocating 1% of gross domestic product (GDP) to culture or extending the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy from the current 10 to 14 weeks.
The main point of contention was the removal of the subject “Moral and Religious Education” from the public school curriculum, with members arguing that it was a private subject that did not belong to schools and should not have government funding, and others. arguing that this is contrary to the fact that freedom of choice must be respected since it is an optional topic.
In his speech on the first day of the convention, Livre representative Rui Tavares foresaw a “narrow path” for the party until the March legislative elections, stressed that “there is no need to reinvent the wheel” and insisted on a post-election agreement. on the left, which suggests that it could be control.
The President of the Republic called early legislative elections for March 10 after Prime Minister António Costa resigned on November 7 last year, following the revelation that he was the subject of a judicial investigation initiated by the prosecutor’s office in the Supreme Court following Operation Influencer.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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