National Issues

«Portugal can and must win, but with a different policy, a policy to serve the people and the country»

To all of you, to the workers and people of the city and municipality of Montemor-o-Novo and, in particular, to the retired, pensioners and elderly people to whom we dedicate our Public Session, our most cordial greetings.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of December 12, 2020

The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on 12 December 2020, made the assessment of the XXI Congress, took decisions on the leadership work, analysed the recent developments of the national situation and of the mass struggle, the elections for President of the Republic, the intervention of the PCP and defined its priorities for action.

On the European Council of December 10 and 11

As expected, the European Council approved the new Multiannual Financial Framework, as well as the “Recovery Fund”. The difficulties and stalemates surrounding the approval of these financial instruments, and the way in which they were overcome, confirm contradictions and problems indissociable from the nature of the European Union, which are far from being resolved and which go beyond obvious divergences with Hungary and Poland.

General Secretary of the PCP

Elected by majority with one vote against Comrade Jerónimo de Sousa decided not to vote in his election Jerónimo de Sousa Metallurgical worker. 73 years old.

Central Control Comission

Unanimously Approved Agostinho Lopes Albano Nunes Armando Morais Carlos Gonçalves Francisco Melo

Secretariat of the Central Committee

Unanimously Approved Alexandre Araújo Intellectual. 48 years Francisco Lopes Factory Worker. 65 years Jerónimo de Sousa Metallurgical worker. 73 years Jorge Cordeiro Employee. 67 years

Political Committee of the Central Committee

Approved by majority with one abstension Ângelo Alves Intellectual. 49 years Armindo Miranda Employee. 67 years Belmiro Magalhães Degree in History. 38 years Carina Castro Degree in Visual Arts. 37 years

The international relations of the PCP. PCP and the communist and international revolutionary movement

Comrades, We are holding our 21th Congress under extraordinary circumstances which do not make it possible to have the presence of international guests, representatives of communist parties and other revolutionary and progressive forces, with which we have ties of friendship and struggle. This does not mean, however, that internationalist solidarity is not present and alive in our Congress.

Central Committee elected at the XXI Congress

Elected with 602 votes in favor (98,5%), 3 votes against and 6 abstensions. Adelino Nunes 58 years Alexandra Pinto 25 years Alexandre Araújo 48 years Alma Rivera 29 years

The determining role of organization and intervention among workers and the claim struggle

Comrades The PCP is the vanguard of the working class and of all workers. A role that we do not see as a title, granted by decree or self-proclaimed indulgence. Our vanguard role results from the class nature of the PCP, as well as from its supreme objectives that correspond to the historical mission of the proletariat: to abolish class society and to create, in its place, a superior form of social and economic organization, socialism, towards communism.