Former CDS-PP leader Paulo Portas, Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas, former minister Leonor Beleza and former Christian Democratic Party lawmaker Cecilia Meireles are some of the speakers at the AD congress, which takes place on Sunday.
According to a press release, the Democratic Alliance (the coalition that will join PSD, CDS-PP and PPM in the legislative elections on March 10) will organize a “Convention for Portugal” next Sunday at the Estoril Congress Center (Lisbon). ).
SDS-PP leader Nuno Melo will speak at the opening stage at 11 a.m., while PSD leader Luis Montenegro will speak at the closing stage, scheduled for 6 p.m., in the presence of the president. PRM member Gonçalo da Câmara, not included in Pereira’s program, in an initiative whose speakers will be several list leaders and AD candidates.
“AD will bring together a group of independents and party leaders as speakers at the convention with the main goal: this is more than a party project, it is a government project,” the press release said.
Pedro Reis, coordinator of the Believe movement, the PSD’s discussion platform with civil society, which launched in January 2023 and has already planned a major congress ahead of the European ones, will open the initiative at 10:45, followed by Nuno Melo and the President of Cascais Chamber, Carlos Carreiras .
Liliana Reis, university professor and one of the five independent heads of the AD (Castelo Branco) list, will also speak, followed by the Regional Secretary for Maritime and Fisheries of the Azores, Humberto López São João, and former PSD Secretary of State and lawyer José Eduardo Martins.
Paulo Carmona, President of the Forum of Business Administrators and Managers, Catarina Castro, Market Analyst, and Hugo Vilares, University Professor, precede one of the most anticipated speeches by former Deputy Prime Minister and former CDS-PP leader Paulo. Portas, scheduled for 13:00.
The second half of the day of the convention will begin with a speech by João Marques Almeida, consultant on political and geopolitical risks and European affairs, followed by two more strong names from the AD lists: Ana Paula Martins, former president of the Order of Pharmacists and former vice-president. – President Rui Rio, who will be number three in Lisbon, and Eduardo Oliveira e Sousa, former president of the Portuguese Farmers’ Confederation and head of the Santarem list.
In the top list of Coimbra, Rita Judice, Viana do Castelo, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, Porto Alexandre candidates Homem Cristo and Ana Gabriela Cabillas, both associated with education, doctor Pedro Strecht, writer Francisco José Viegas and maestro Rui Massena will also speak after noon.
At the final stage of the event, speeches are planned by the lawyer and former CDS-PP deputy Cecilia Meireles, who is not on the list of AD, the President of the Lisbon City Council Carlos Moedas and the President of the Champalimaud Foundation. and former Health Minister Leonor Beleza.
The convention will be closed by Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD and head of the AD list in Lisbon.
AD was already represented at a public initiative in Porto on January 7, but only with speeches by the three leaders of its member parties.
Last Monday, the SDP and SDS-NP approved lists of parliamentary candidates with a view to holding early legislative elections on March 10.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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