The ambition of the PS [Socialist Party] for an absolute majority, which led to the call for early elections, has been achieved. The manoeuvre set in motion to guarantee the interests and privileges of the ruling classes was accomplished with one of the possible solutions on which the centres of big capital and the promoters of right-wing policies were seeking What these interests gained, the country has lost in termos of the prospect of solving the problems confronting it. The policy needed to provide pressing answers for the lives of the workers and people is now more distant.

Warmest and most cordial greetings to all at this magnificent Anniversary Rally of our Party and the closing of its Centenary celebrations, a day of struggle for rights, peace, freedom, democracy and socialism. A greeting in particular to the many democrats without party affiliation who are here with us at this very special moment for us Portuguese communists.

Here we are determined and confident in the project we have and want to build. A construction that is done every day on the most diverse fronts but which is first and foremost based in companies and workplaces. With the workers and for the workers, this is our commitment that has lasted for one hundred and one years. We are well aware of the difficulties because we feel them just like all other workers. We know the problems, not because of what they tell us, but because we are there, we feel them and we face them.

The Party that celebrates 101 years today, which the young communists salute with an affection the size of our dreams, the size of the world. Our Party! A party that has always maintained its commitment to the workers, the people and the Portuguese youth. And here we are to change the world, to free it from exploitation, to build socialism and communism. This is our project for the future, that is why we will always be the Party of the Youth! Long live the struggle of youth!