Unanimously Approved Alexandre Araújo Intellectual. 48 years Francisco Lopes Factory Worker. 65 years Jerónimo de Sousa Metallurgical worker. 73 years Jorge Cordeiro Employee. 67 years

Comrades, We are holding our 21th Congress under extraordinary circumstances which do not make it possible to have the presence of international guests, representatives of communist parties and other revolutionary and progressive forces, with which we have ties of friendship and struggle. This does not mean, however, that internationalist solidarity is not present and alive in our Congress.

Comrades The PCP is the vanguard of the working class and of all workers. A role that we do not see as a title, granted by decree or self-proclaimed indulgence. Our vanguard role results from the class nature of the PCP, as well as from its supreme objectives that correspond to the historical mission of the proletariat: to abolish class society and to create, in its place, a superior form of social and economic organization, socialism, towards communism.

We are coming to end of the XXI Congress of the PCP. We have come a long way in the process of preparing it and holding it.