The historical leaders of the PCP in Alentejo this Monday considered it negative for the region the absence of party deputies from Alentejo circles for the first time since April 25 and demanded an internal analysis.
“It is necessary to wait some time to understand what exactly happened” in Beja’s circle, but there is no doubt that the region “remains a loser” without a CDU MP (PCP-PEV), he told Agencia Lusa Today – former MP from the communists António Rodia Machado.
In Sunday’s legislative elections, the CDU lost Beja’s deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, Joao Dias, who had been in the hemisphere since 2018 and now could not be re-elected, and the mandates in this constituency were distributed by the PS. Chega and AD, one each.
With this result in Beja, in addition to the HDZ votes in the circles of Évora (no longer having a deputy in the 2022 elections) and Portalegre (no longer having a single deputy in the 1991 elections), in which the communists once again failed to achieve any mandate , the PCP was left without deputies elected by the Alentejo, which happened for the first time since April 25, 1974, more precisely since the first free elections in Portugal, held a year later, for the constituent assembly.
According to Rodea Machado, who was Beja’s deputy between 1995 and 2005, “the election of Chegi’s deputy [por aquele círculo] On the contrary, this will in no way serve the interests of this population.”
Also in conversation with Lusa, Abilio Fernandez, a former PCP deputy elected by Évora and former president of that municipality, noted that without communist deputies, “Alentejo was left without a voice in the defense of its core interests and potential.”
“We are subject to national policies, we do not have local leaders who consistently fight for our potential,” so “I see desertification and abandonment on the way,” he stressed.
José Soeiro, who was the communist MP elected for the first time by Beja between 1983 and 1985 and again from 2005 to 2010, also defended Luza that in Sunday’s elections “the people made the wrong choice and will suffer the consequences.”
The PKP ultimately became a victim of “the great dissatisfaction of the Portuguese people with the policies that have been practiced for the last 50 years,” he believes, blaming the PS, PSD and CDS-PP.
According to Rodea Machado, reflecting on the election results is “obligatory for the country and for the people who voted,” just as the PCP also “must reflect maturely on these situations and their implications for the future.”
“It is always useful to reflect, analyze and look for reasons, trying to find ways to the necessary answers,” admitted José Soeiro, on the other hand.
This former PKP parliamentarian also said that “only a broad survey of public opinion can reveal the reasons that may lie behind this discontent” and give clues about “voting for a party that challenges the democratic regime.”
Abilio Fernandez, elected deputy for Évora in the Assembly of the Republic in 2005, “pointed the finger” at opinion polls and the media to explain the result of the PCP in these legislative elections.
“The polls, for example, start with the CDU getting just 1% and then we get to the end and get 3.3%. In other words, we were supposed to have one MP and now we have four,” which “is disappointing for everyone,” he said.
In Portalegre district, Diogo Julio, a PCP activist since 1974 and former coordinator of the União de Sindicatos do Norte Alentejano (USNA), attributed the party’s loss of votes to the region’s declining population and insisted that the communists must improve communication. meet with voters and deliver a message.
At the same time, he recognized that the communist electorate was “born” from an “Alentejo that no longer exists”, where large estates predominated and the rural population was “severely enslaved”. This Sunday, he added, the most dissatisfied expressed their protest by voting mainly for Chegu.
The PS won the Évora district with 32.79% (29,309 votes), electing Luis Dias. The other two elected deputies were Sonia Ramos from the Democratic Alliance (AD), uniting PSD, CDS-PP and PPM, which received 22.43% (20,049 votes), and Rui Cristina from Chegi with 19.96% (17,846). .
In Beja, the PS also won with 31.70% and elected Nelson Brito, followed closely by Chega with 21.55%, and also in the election of Diva Ribeiro, followed by AD with 16.74%, electing Gonçalo Valente.
In Portalegre, the PS received the most votes (34.05%, elected Ricardo Pinheiro), followed by Chega (24.59%, elected Enrique de Freitas) and AD in third place (23.30%).
In Sunday’s legislative elections, AD received 79 deputies in the Assembly of the Republic against 77 for the PS (28.66%), followed by Chega with 48 elected deputies (18.06%).
IL with eight seats, BE with five and PAN with one, maintained the number of MPs. Livre went from one elected representative to four, and the CDU lost two seats and was left with four deputies.
The four seats for emigrants in the Assembly of the Republic, which the PS received in 2022 with three mandates, have not yet been determined.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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