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Some of them, better known than others, have been occupying the time of the congress -more than 14 hours on Friday and today- with a style and themes very different from those of other parties.
Most delegates from organizations, from cells to districts, bring sectoral concerns to the microphone by reading a kind of activity report.
There are many issues, from the distribution and sale of Avante on the Alentejo Coast – “147 copies are regularly sold” – to support the strikes or the challenge to the new Montijo airport, in the Setúbal district.
From Alentejo, through João Pauzinho, came the denunciation of intensive agriculture and a new agrarian reform, in a different way from 1974/1975 – all said in four minutes and few are in time, contrary to what What happens in other parties’ congresses.
Others, members of the party leadership, have more time and speak about specific issues, about social security, health, trade unionism.
There are also notables, such as former communist MEP Ilda Figueiredo, who took the stage today to speak about world peace, Albano Nunes, a former communist leader, who theorized about Marxism-Leninism and party loyalty. to these early and received a standing ovation on Friday.
As is traditional, communist militants continue to react with applause when they refer to countries like Cuba and Venezuela. And that was what happened when Ilda Figueiredo made reference to the country that was already led by Fidel Castro.
During these two days, the leaders enumerated, sometimes exhaustively, the results of processes of “struggles” against tolls, in Beira Interior, or of strikes in Setúbal or in the Algarve.
But there are also questions of domestic politics. This morning Cátia Benedetti, leader of the PCP of the Azores, passed by the rostrum, who went to talk about the defeat of the CDU in the October elections that removed the communists from the regional parliament.
He blamed the “anti-communist campaign”, but also acknowledged that “a stronger organization” could have “prevented the exit from parliament” of Horta, island of Faial, and called for a “reinforcement” of the party’s work. “
Of the “contraption”, or “new stage of national political life”, as the communists refer to the leftist understanding from 2015 to 2019, there was also talk of demanding measures adopted by the PS Government, but at the initiative of the PCP.
Example? The intermodal step was a “conquest” and a “struggle of several years,” recalled Mário Janeiro, from the Seixal party council, Setúbal district.
But in the congress you can also hear the voice of the delegates of “cells”, which the PCP wants to increase by another 100.
Shortly after opening the working day, shortly after 9 in the morning, Luís Mestre intervened, who went on to describe the reconstruction works, a year ago, of the “cell” of a company, Iberol, in Vila Franca de Xira.
