CDS grand meeting ends today with the election of new national bodies
The 31st National Congress of the CDS-PP ends today, in Viseu, with the election of the new national bodies and the re-election of Nuno Melo as leader, after his motion of global strategy was unanimously approved.
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The motion, entitled 'Time to Grow' and which aims to "set the party's general direction", was approved by all those present at the grand meeting on the first day of the congress's work.
The election for the national bodies for the two-year period 2024-2026, by secret ballot, will take place in the morning at the Pavilhão Cidade de Viseu and, according to the programme, the results should be announced at 12:30 pm.
The bodies to be elected include the National Political Commission, the National Council, the Congress Board, the National Council of Jurisdiction and the National Council of Supervision.
After the proclamation of the results and the inauguration of the new elected bodies, the president, Nuno Melo, will give the consecration speech, closing the work of the grand meeting that started on Saturday.
On the first day of the grand meeting, Melo rejected that the party had been a crutch in the last legislative elections, or the PSD, a coalition partner in the Democratic Alliance, a "surrogate belly", insisting that the centrists were decisive in the electoral result of 10 March.
Before the congressmen, Nuno Melo took stock of the last two years, in which the CDS-PP returned to the Assembly of the Republic and asked the centrists not to feel like "minor partners" in this coalition, stressing that they are allies.
Melo referred his position on the future of the party to today, at a time when two electoral challenges are approaching: the regional elections in Madeira, with the CDS-PP running alone, and the European elections, a race in which the centrists will once again join forces with the PSD to renew the Democratic Alliance.
The current president of the CDS-PP, Nuno Melo, is running for the party's leadership again, unopposed. He has been the leader since 2022 and is running for a further two-year term, until 2026.
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