National Issues

Statement by PCP Central Committee
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of December 12, 2020
12 December 2020
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on 12 December 2020, made the assessment of the XXI Congress, took decisions on the leadership work, analysed the recent developments of the national situation and of the mass struggle, the elections for President of the Republic, the intervention of the PCP and defined its priorities for action.

Statement by Sandra Pereira, PCP’s MP in the European Parliament
On the European Council of December 10 and 11
11 December 2020
As expected, the European Council approved the new Multiannual Financial Framework, as well as the “Recovery Fund”.
The difficulties and stalemates surrounding the approval of these financial instruments, and the way in which they were overcome, confirm contradictions and problems indissociable from the nature of the European Union, which are far from being resolved and which go beyond obvious divergences with Hungary and Poland.
General Secretary of the PCP
29 November 2020
Elected by majority with one vote against
Comrade Jerónimo de Sousa decided not to vote in his election
Jerónimo de Sousa
Metallurgical worker. 73 years old.
Central Control Comission
29 November 2020
Unanimously Approved
Agostinho Lopes
Albano Nunes
Armando Morais
Carlos Gonçalves
Francisco Melo
Secretariat of the Central Committee
29 November 2020
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
Political Committee of the Central Committee
29 November 2020
Approved by majority with one abstension
Ângelo Alves
Intellectual. 49 years
Armindo Miranda
Employee. 67 years
Belmiro Magalhães
Degree in History. 38 years
Carina Castro
Degree in Visual Arts. 37 years

Speech by Pedro Guerreiro, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, Loures, XXI Congress of the PCP
The international relations of the PCP. PCP and the communist and international revolutionary movement
29 November 2020
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.
Central Committee elected at the XXI Congress
29 November 2020
Elected with 602 votes in favor (98,5%), 3 votes against and 6 abstensions.
Adelino Nunes
58 years
Alexandra Pinto
25 years
Alexandre Araújo
48 years
Alma Rivera
29 years

Speech by Gonçalo Oliveira, member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee, Loures, XXI Congress of the PCP
The determining role of organization and intervention among workers and the claim struggle
29 November 2020
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.
International greetings and messages sent to the XXI Congress of the PCP
29 November 2020
People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Communist Party of Australia
Communist Party of Armenia
Workers’ Party of Austria
Workers’ Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
Workers’ Party (Brazil)
Communist Party of Britain
African Party of Independence of Cape Verde
Colombian Communist Party