PCP salutes the ANC and the SACP

Sexta 24 de Abril de 2009

The Secretariat of the PCP salutes the ANC and the SACP on the results of the Elections

The National Executive Committee of the
African National Congress
 
 
Lisbon, 24 April 09
Dear Comrades,
 
 
Following the announcement of the results of the Elections in your country we convey the warm congratulations of the Portuguese Communist Party for the extraordinary victory of the African National Congress.

The results achieved by the ANC, reaching two-thirds majority of votes, confirm it as the major force of the struggle and unity of the South African people.

A force that, with its renewed links to the south African workers and people and the complex problems that continue to affect it, have - after this election and following your last Congress, which our Party had the honour to attend and in which was elected the new leadership of ANC led by comrade Jacob Zuma – renewed conditions and strength to continue to be the faithful interpreter of the aspirations of the people of South Africa of deepening the democratic, national and progressive character of the process initiated with the defeat of the Apartheid regime.

The ANC's victory, achieved in a context of intense attacks against the unity and cohesion of the ANC, is for the Portuguese Communists an element of encouragement an encouragement in the struggle which we continue waging, to recover the ideals of the April 25, 1974, revolution – whose 35th anniversary will be marked tomorrow – and to build a truly democratic Portugal, of justice and social progress
 
With our fraternal Greetings,
 
 
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the PCP
 
To the Central Committee of the
South African Communist Party
 
Lisbon, April 24, 2009
Dear Comrades,
 
Following the announcements regarding the results of the Elections in your country, we convey the warm greetings of the Portuguese Communist Party for the extraordinary victory of your Party and of the African National Congress.
The results which were achieved, namely the two-thirds majority of the vote, confirm that the ANC is the major force in the struggle and unity of the South African people. The victory in these elections paves the way for making the second decade of freedom in South Africa “the decade of the workers and the poor”, as you say in your statement analysing the elections. This goal is inseparable from the South African Communist Party's contribution to further the progressive nature of the African National Congress and to strengthen the popular roots of the Tripartite Alliance, as was fully confirmed in these elections.
The victory of your Party and of the ANC – which deals a severe blow to all those who, through racist or opportunist campaigns, were targeting the unity and cohesion of the ANC, and therefore of the South African people – is, for the Portuguese Communists, an encouragement in the struggle which we continue waging, to recover the ideals of the April 25, 1974, revolution – whose 35th anniversary will be marked tomorrow – and to build a truly democratic Portugal, of justice and social progress.
 
With our fraternal greetings,
 
 
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the PCP