“People are tired of promises that repeat from election to election,” stated Paulo Raimundo during a CDU rally in Faro, highlighting that “the life of each individual is increasingly tight and moving backward.”
In the district claimed by Chega in the 2024 legislative elections, the PCP’s secretary-general remarked that people “are rightly disillusioned,” being “pushed towards resignation, easy solutions, delusions, demagoguery, and lies.”
“This is the situation across the country and here in the Algarve as well, but it does not have to, cannot, and will not continue like this,” he emphasized.
Raimundo encouraged the public to “slam the table” to change “this rigged game” and to “reject lies, demagoguery, and illusions.”
Focusing on healthcare issues, especially the lack of professionals in the National Health Service (SNS) in the district, Raimundo urged increased support for “the life of everyone and for the Democratic Unity Coalition” and backed the election of teacher Catarina Marques from the CDU in Faro, where representation has been absent since 2015.
Catarina Marques, the CDU’s top candidate for Faro, criticized the region’s “tourism monoculture,” housing access challenges, mobility problems, and lack of investment in the health sector.
“It is necessary and possible to recover the deputy for the Algarve,” declared Catarina Marques.
In 2024, CDU’s vote count in Faro was less than half compared to 2015, ranking it as the sixth most voted political force in the last elections, with Chega, PS, and AD securing three deputies each.
