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The CDS candidate for mayor of Vila Verde in 2017 announced today that he will not run again for the 2021 vote and has made his position available as vice president of the district commission, led by Nuno Melo. He also assumed “failure” because he did not know “why the militants are” in that municipality.
Paulo Marques points a finger at the hierarchies, speaking of “contempt” for having waited “the last six months” to know whether or not he could proceed with an application. For the centrist, useful time is over and the essential timing to prepare the campaign in a “professional” way has been lost.
“I waited for the last 6 months for a clarification and my party’s position on my strategy, but that never happened,” he says, regretting not being “worthy of an email or a phone call with an indication, guidance or any sign. of good. -be”.
“This was another episode of contempt, among others that happened in recent years, and that disgusted me very much as the leader of a local structure. Not with me. I am a man made of loyalties, respect and verticality. Today, perhaps, I am already an ‘old-fashioned’ man, but I am very proud of that, ”he says.
“Besides all these situations, I also assume my failure with the CDS activists in Vila Verde. In fact, I don’t know where they are ”, he assumes. In order not to “advance alone”, he decides that he will not be a candidate in 2021, assuming the decision as “final”.
Vice place available
“Obviously, and as a direct consequence of my decision, I will not be a candidate for the next internal elections of the CDS in Vila Verde (they should happen soon) nor will I participate in any way in the process. On the other hand, as expected, I will put my place as district vice president at the disposal of Nuno Melo, president of the district, ”wrote Paulo Marques.
A county where the party was king and lord for two decades
It was 44 years ago. On December 12, 1976, the municipality of Vila Verde elected the first mayor of democracy. António Cerqueira was the CDS candidate, winning PSD and PS with 38.28% of the votes.
In the district of Braga, that year, Tomé Macedo (Amares), João Almeida (Cabeceiras de Basto) and Alexandre Faria (Esposende) were also elected mayors, demonstrating the power that the Christian-inspired party, with the support of a more rural community linked to the Church, agriculture and livestock.
Cerqueira would once again win the elections in Vila Verde for the CDS on five occasions, one of which is associated with the PSD. The orange party would end up removing the centrist from power in 1997, with the victory of José Manuel Fernandes, the current MEP elected by the Social Democrats. The PSD never left the “throne” again.
The county was swept up in a political orange wave and many of the county’s top centrist leaders changed “color.” António Vilela, who succeeded José Manuel Fernandes as president of the municipality (now in his third and last term), was from the CDS council, for example.
The centrists still managed to elect a councilor in 2009, as a result of the return to politics of ‘Sebastián’ António Cerqueira, who meanwhile served a prison sentence between 2004 and 2006 for the crime of embezzlement, falsification of documents and abuse of power while in office. destination of the municipality for two decades.
Paulo Marques tried to recover the party in the last municipalities of 2017, achieving a modest 5.67%. It is unknown who will be the new ‘helmsman’ of a ship that is advancing at full speed towards a new threat even further to the right, with the possibility of a political ‘shipwreck’.
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