It is forty years since the signing of the Treaty of Accession of Portugal to the European Economic Community, in 1985.

Portugal's inclusion in the EEC was conceived and implemented as an integral part of the counter-revolutionary process of monopolistic recovery that countered the path of equality, justice and social progress, economic development, national sovereignty and independence, peace and cooperation achieved and initiated by the Portuguese people with the April Revolution.

Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people have reached unprecedented proportions, amounting to a real genocide in the Gaza Strip, with hundreds of people killed by Israeli bombings and continuous military attacks, the blockade on the entry of drinking water, food, medicines and other essential goods, the use of hunger as a form of aggression against the population, the systematic and complete destruction of homes, hospitals and other basic infrastructure, the proclaimed purpose to militarily occupy the entire territory and expel the Palestinian people from their land, Palestine.

In this election campaign, in this fight for everything that matters in the lives of the workers, the People, the youth and the Country, we affirmed the CDU as a force of courage, seriousness and confidence.

We salute the activists of the CDU, and in particular our fellow coalition members the Ecologist Party “The Greens” and the Intervenção Democrática Association.

1. The power outage in Portugal on April 28, due to the disruption, costs and impacts it caused, calls for measures to contribute to the rapid restoration of supply - prioritising essential services to the population, including health services, civil protection, security, transport, education, communications, water supply and social care - and to support and aid the population, as well as a rigorous investigation into the causes of the outage and the identification of options to guarantee Portugal's energy security and sovereignty in the future.