Motion A, which was headed by Mariana Mortágua, will meet in plenary on Sunday, in Coimbra, to decide the bet for the coordination of the Left Bloc.
This meeting will reveal the name that will head the document and the candidate lists for the National Board, which will then elect the Political Commission. Even before José Manuel Pureza began to be mentioned internally as a future candidate for leadership, the meeting was already scheduled for Coimbra, where Pureza is from and for the Chamber where he ran on October 12th.
The former deputy told Lusa, on Saturday, that it would be possible to find a solution to give “strength” to the party, but rejected “hasty scenarios.”
It was understood as a step forward and, as DN knows, it will be one of the names in competition for coordination. José Soeiro is another name mentioned.
Among the names of the proponents of this motion are several leaders from the party core, such as Fabian Figueiredo (also number two on the party list for the Lisbon constituency, but who did not succeed Mortágua in parliament, losing strength for the succession), also Jorge Costa, Joana Mortágua, Marisa Matias, Catarina Martins, Adriano Campos, Pedro Filipe Soares or José Soeiro. The founders Francisco Louçã, Luís Fazenda and Fernando Rosas are part of the signatories of Motion A, which brings together 600 activists, much more than the remaining four opposition parties, focused on criticism of internal democracy and the lack of attention to the grassroots.
At the 14th BE National Convention, scheduled for November 29th and 30th, in Lisbon, guidance motions will be voted on (the deadline for submission of which ended in June) and lists for the party’s National Table. It will be highly likely that Motion A will maintain a large majority in the Board, which will indicate the candidate chosen by this Motion for party coordination.
BE obtained its worst result ever in legislative elections, going from five to a single deputy and lost local representation in this month’s vote, going from five councilors and 94 municipal deputies to one councilor in Lisbon and 17 deputies in chambers and parishes.