National Issues
Statement by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Lisboa
Regarding the 2021 Presidential Elections
25 January 2021
1. The reelection, on the first round, of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa reflects the expected outcome of an elaborate promotion of this candidate which, besides the unique advantage resulting from the exercise of Presidential functions, benefited from the fabrication of a studied unanimity based on a methodically and continually promoted campaign.
Statement by Sandra Pereira, Member of the European Parliament
On the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union which now begins
20 January 2021
The Portuguese Government assumes, during the first half of 2021, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
For the PCP, this should be an opportunity for Portugal to put on the European Union's agenda the need to question the course and policies that it imposes on the peoples and which are at the root of the social inequalities and asymmetries of development that pass through it.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Montemor-o-Novo, Public Session [2021 Presidential elections]
«Portugal can and must win, but with a different policy, a policy to serve the people and the country»
15 January 2021
To all of you, to the workers and people of the city and municipality of Montemor-o-Novo and, in particular, to the retired, pensioners and elderly people to whom we dedicate our Public Session, our most cordial greetings.
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.