The 31st National Congress of the CDS-PP will end this Sunday in Viseu with the election of new national bodies and the re-election of Nuno Melo as leader after his proposal for a global strategy was unanimously approved.
The proposal, entitled “Time to Grow” and intended to “establish the overall direction of the party”, was approved by everyone present at the main meeting on the first day of the congress.
Elections of national authorities for the 2024-2026 biennium. secret ballot will take place in the morning at Pavilhão Cidade de Viseu and, according to the program, the results should be announced at 12:30.
The bodies that will be elected include the National Political Commission, the National Council, the Congressional Bureau, the National Council of Jurisdiction and the National Review Council.
Following the announcement of the results and the inauguration of the new elected bodies, President Nuno Melo will deliver a dedication speech, concluding the work of the main meeting that began on Saturday.
On the first day of the main meeting, Melo rejected the claim that the party was the mainstay in the last legislative elections, as well as the PSD, a coalition partner in the Democratic Alliance, a “surrogate belly”, insisting that the centrists were decisive in the elections. Election results on March 10.
Before the congressmen, Nuno Melo summed up the results of the last two years, during which the SDS-PP returned to the Assembly of the Republic and asked the centrists not to feel like “secondary partners” in this coalition, emphasizing that they are allies.
Melo brought his position on the future of the party to today, when two electoral problems are approaching: the regional ones in Madeira, where the CDS-PP is running alone, and the European elections, a race in which the centrists will turn to unite with the PSD and re-edit the Democratic Alliance.
The current CDS-PP president, Nuno Melo, is again running for party leadership without any opposition. He has been leader since 2022 and is running again for another two-year term, until 2026.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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