Rio’s list to the National Council elects 21 members and the one supported by Montenegro 16
The list of Rui Rio’s board of directors to the National Council elected 21 of the 70 members of this body, while the list of Paulo Cunha, supported by Luís Montenegro, got 16.
According to information advanced to Lusa, the list with the most votes was Rio, whose number one is MEP Paulo Rangel, having obtained 249 votes out of a total of 867 voters (28.7% of the votes cast)
This was followed by list M, headed by the Mayor of Famalicão, Paulo Cunha, with 191 votes (22%).
In the last Congress, in 2018, to which the National Council ran eight lists, Rio managed 34 of the 70 elected, but after building a unit list with the then defeated candidate Pedro Santana Lopes.
Tied with nine terms (102 votes) were the B lists, by Carlos Eduardo Reis, deputy for Braga, – who already said he will be “solidary” with the leader Rui Rio – and the V, by the leader of the PSD district, Bruno Vitorino , who supported ex-leadership candidate Miguel Pinto Luz.
Below is list X, composed entirely of Social Democrats under 35, headed by JSD Coimbra leader José Miguel Ferreira, with seven terms (80 votes), and J, by Joaquim Biancard Cruz (who is a member of the deputy Duarte Marques and MEP Lídia Pereira), with five advisers (63 votes).
The F list of Alexandre Barros Cunha got two seats in the National Council (23 votes), while the E led by Tiago Sá Carneiro (supporter of Pinto Luz) and the D of the former leader of the Setúbal district Luís Rodrigues elected only the first name of each list (with 16 and 15 votes, respectively)
Maria José Cruz, of the Social Democratic Women of Lisbon, remained outside the National Council, who, with nine votes, was not elected.
In this election, made by the Hondt method, 867 delegates voted, with nine opting for the white vote and eight for the null vote.
The National Council is the highest organ of the party between Congresses and usually represents the various sensibilities of the PSD.
Rui Rio’s Political Commission elected with 62.4%, lowest result since 2007
The National Political Commission of the president of the PSD, Rui Rio, was elected today with 62.4% of the votes, social-democratic sources told Lusa.
Only Luís Filipe Menezes, in 2007, with 61.8%, had a lower vote than Rui Rio.
Rui Rio’s list was elected with 541 favorable votes, 227 whites and 99 nulls. 867 voters registered.
Two years ago, Rio’s board was elected with 64.7% of the vote, in what was then the lowest vote since 2007, when Luís Filipe Menezes obtained 61.8%.
The PSD changed its statutes and adopted direct elections in 2006, failing to choose the congress leader. National bodies such as the National Political Commission continue to be elected at the meeting.
The new board has two new vice-presidents, deputy André Coelho Lima, who was already a member of the Political Commission, and deputy and former mayor of Rio Maior Isaura Morais.
They leave the post of vice-presidents Elina Fraga and the president of the Regional Political Commission of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro.
David Justino, Isabel Meireles, Nuno Morais Sarmento and Salvador Malheiro remain as vice-presidents and José Silvano continues as general secretary.
In a single list, the Bureau of Congress, which is again chaired by Paulo Mota Pinto, was elected with 62.4% of the votes, since it received 539 favorable votes, 229 white and 98 null.
The National Financial Audit Commission, led by Fernando Sebastião (who was Rio’s district attorney for the last few days in Viseu) managed 66.1%, with 573 votes in favor, 209 white and 85 null.
At the 38th PSD Congress, which ends today in Viana do Castelo, 948 delegates were registered.
Paulo Colaço defeats Negrão and will be president of the Jurisdiction Council
Paulo Colaço’s list was the most voted for the National Jurisdiction Council (CJN), which will preside over this body, defeating the list of the leadership, headed by ex-PSD parliamentary leader Fernando Negrão.
Social-Democratic sources told Lusa that the list of Paulo Colaço – a former member of the Jurisdiction – managed to elect five of the nine members, that of director three and José Miguel Bettencourt, who also belonged to the CJN in the last term, was elected only to Your self.
Ricardo Sousa’s list did not elect any member to the Jurisdiction.
The 38th PSD Congress ends today, in Viana do Castelo, with the election of national bodies, with the speech of Rui Rio, the leader reelected in the January direct elections, after an unprecedented second round.
On Saturday, the second day of the major social-democratic meeting was marked by the intervention of the defeated candidate for leadership Luís Montenegro, who, quoting founder Sá Carneiro, left a sign that he will not be silent.
“What I can’t do, because I don’t have that right, is to keep silent, under any pretext,” said Montenegro, assuring that he will follow the example of founder Francisco Sá Carneiro, citing what he said at the National Assembly in 1972.
The candidate who came in third place in the race for the leadership of the PSD, Miguel Pinto Luz, made a hard attack “to the cynicism” of “senators” who expect in the reserve a bad result of the party in municipal elections.
The 2021 municipalities also marked the Congress, with Rui Rio affirming, in the speech of the start of the works, on Friday, that the choice of the municipal candidates will obey the criteria of competence and not of party faction, in a speech in which he promised to be adamant against abuse and patronage in the Local Government.
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