PSD President and Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said this Monday that his party “indelibly shapes the course of the democratic regime” and noted that in the coming years it can become “even stronger, more cohesive and united.”
The leader of the Social Democrats expressed this position in a text published on the party’s website in connection with the 50th anniversary of the SDP, entitled “Preparing for the next 50 years.”
“The future of the Social Democratic Party is built every day from the balance between experience and renewal, between firmness of values and flexibility of action, between identity and evolution. The future we are preparing today. The changes we approved Last November, as part of the revision of the statutes, they predict that in the coming years our party will become even stronger, more cohesive and cohesive,” emphasizes Luis Montenegro.
The Social Democrat also designs a PSD “with greater transparency and ethical commitment, with greater participation, greater openness to society, more independence, with greater simplicity, fairness and efficiency of internal procedures, with greater gender parity” as well as “with more young people ” People”.
“Because the future is renewal, it is change, it is new ways of seeing and understanding the world. Giving them room to grow, tools to prepare and qualifications. Not only to refresh our staff with new blood, but above all so that Portugal can look forward to a renewed and strengthened social democracy in the coming years,” he asserts.
Looking back, the PSD president also emphasizes that the history of the PSD “indelibly shaped the course of the democratic regime throughout the 50 years of its existence” and “gave it the hallmarks of humanism, economic and social progress that only the Social Democratic Party’s vision carries.”
Montenegro argues that without the PSD, “Portugal would not only be different, but would certainly be more imperfect and incomplete.”
The PSD has directed Portugal “resolutely towards a social state, a social market economy and a model of a free, fair and equal society” based “on equal opportunity and recognition of merit” and which “values free initiative, while never losing solidarity and leaving no one behind “, he says.
“A tolerant and consensus-promoting society that respects differences and uncompromisingly defends freedom of expression and pluralism, a society in which the state is in the service of the people, not the people in the service of the state, in which the State is the guarantor of access to basic public services for all, not only for some. A modern society, open to Europe and the world, with an Atlantic vocation,” adds the Prime Minister.
In this message, the SDP leader also addresses “all the men and women – activists, supporters, leaders – who have made the party great over time through their dedication, work and example.”
And he pays tribute to those “who voted and won, and those who voted and lost,” those who “never gave up on social democratic ideals or the country.”
“All those who, endowed with a democratic vote, have fulfilled with honor, zeal and responsibility the public functions entrusted to them by the people, in the Parish Assembly or in the Presidency of the Republic,” points out Luis Montenegro.
The then People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was founded on May 6, 1974 by Francisco Sa Carneiro, Francisco Pinto Balseman and Joaquim Magalhães Mota and was registered in the Supreme Court on January 25, 1975.
The name and acronym were changed to Social Democratic Party (PPD-PSD) on October 3, 1976.
The SDP begins this Monday with a celebration of the party’s 50th anniversary that will last more than a year and include an exhibition, conferences, a revamped national headquarters and a major closing event.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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