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Less than a week ago, at the closing rally of the Festa do Avante, the general secretary of the PCP had promised to briefly present a communist candidate for the presidential elections and this Saturday, after the meeting of the party’s Central Committee, Jerónimo de Sousa announced to the microphones: João Ferreira is the communist candidate for the 2021 elections.
Jerónimo de Sousa says that it is “a candidacy to go to the end” and that this is a candidate to go “to the ground to feel the homeland”. The MEP’s candidacy will be presented on Thursday, according to the general secretary of the PCP. Without revealing how the meeting of the Central Committee was developed, Jerónimo de Sousa also affirmed that the name of João Ferreira was “approved unanimously” and that in addition to the communists, the MEP will have “many democrats, compatriots who suffer the consequences of this policy direct ”.
The PCP considers that the next elections to the Presidency of the Republic “are of the utmost importance for the national and international framework in which they are held and for the functions and role of the President of the Republic in national life” and therefore, the candidate João Ferreira in what he says is a proposal with “the values of April, the defense of values and people and the affirmation of social equality and justice, sovereignty and national independence.”
And the communists open criticism of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (after the most recent exchange of words between the President of the Republic and the PCP on the holding of the Festa do Avante): they consider that a “firm, determined, brave” intervention is lacking and Again, they point to the attempt to “whitewash” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa from the PSD.
The mandate of the current President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in addition to his activism, is marked by his commitment to the process of reordering the political forces that have been put in place, to whitewash the PSD, right-wing politics and their responsibilities, to rehabilitate them politically and return them to a role of intense cooperation with the PS, which seeks to ensure the conditions for the politics of the so-called ‘central bloc’ ”, said Jerónimo de Sousa during the presentation of the candidate.
The PCP presents a candidate under the same conditions as the Left Bloc: two MEPs running for the presidential race, although Marisa Matias, in BE, already repeats the candidacy and João Ferreira makes his debut in the campaigns for the presidency.
Jerónimo de Sousa also stressed that this will be a “candidacy and a candidate who will now be where he has always been and where the Presidents of the Republic have been lacking: between the workers and the people, in their struggles for their legitimate rights, interests and aspirations.” .
João Ferreira MEP succeeds Edgar Silva, who in 2016 obtained only 3.85% of the votes. 183,009 were the Portuguese to vote for the candidate that the PCP presented to the elections. Father Edgar ended up having a result much lower than communist aspirations, which with Francisco Lopes in 2011 were above 7% (7.14%) and with Jerónimo de Sousa in 2006 above 8.5% (8.56 %). ).
Father Edgar Silva is the presidential candidate of the PCP
The best result remains, however, that of Carlos Carvalhas in 1991, who obtained more than 660 thousand Portuguese and reached 12.92% of the votes in the historic victory of Mário Soares, with around 71% of the votes and that has already reached Being placed as a ‘goal’ for Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in next year’s race.
