CDS-PP will hold its 31st Congress on April 20 and 21 in Viseu.

The CDS-PP will hold its 31st congress on April 20 and 21 in Viseu, a major meeting aimed at electing new internal organs of the party, which again has parliamentary representation.

According to a press statement, the date and location were unanimously approved by the Congress Organizing Committee (OCC).

CDS-PP President Nuno Melo will be a re-candidate for the position at this important meeting and has already announced that he will leave the European Parliament at “the beginning of April” to accept the mandate of the Assembly of the Republic.

The CDS-PP participated in the legislative elections on 10 March in coalition with the PSD and PPM, the Democratic Alliance (AD), and elected two deputies: Nuno Melo from Porto and Paulo Nuncio from the Lisbon district.

The centrists will be represented in parliament again in the next legislature after they failed to elect a single deputy in 2022 and were expelled from the Assembly of the Republic for the first time in the history of democracy.

According to the rules of the main meeting, published on the party’s website, proposals for global and sectoral strategies must be submitted to the organizing committee of the Congress before April 1.

The last major assembly of an elective nature took place in April 2022, when Nuno Melo took over the leadership of the SDS-PP after his National Political Commission received 74.93% of the votes of the delegates to the 29th Congress.

The MEP replaced Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, who stepped down as leader after the results of that year’s parliamentary elections, the worst in the party’s 47-year history, became known.

Also in 2022, in July, the CDS held its 30th Congress in Aveiro, dedicated exclusively to the amendment of the statutes.