Paulo Raimundo participated in a campaign event this afternoon in Mora, a traditional communist stronghold that had been governed by a coalition led by the PCP from 1975 until 2021, when the PS won the municipality in the last local elections.
Addressing several dozen people, Paulo Raimundo emphasized that the local elections are on October 12, but if it were up to the CDU, they could be “tomorrow already.”
“Such is the anxiety and the desire we have to stop this path that is bringing this municipality backward, to put a halt to the stagnation the PS has subjected this population to, to stop the PS’s greatest specialty in these four years, which is inaugurating the works that we left in progress,” he alleged.
The PCP’s secretary-general defended that two ideas characterize the PS’s four-year term in Mora, beginning with highlighting “the enormous disappointment of those who were deceived by the talk, the siren song, by what was supposed to happen and then nothing happened.”
“And the second is the idea of stagnation. For these people, this municipality, these populations, it’s not enough that there is a great offensive of government policies attacking these lands, these lives… That’s not enough, they add more: a stagnation in the life of the municipality,” he criticized.
Paulo Raimundo emphasized that the CDU’s project for the municipality is to “put Mora back on the right track: on the path of progress, the path of solutions, and the path of the people.”
Addressing those listening to him in one of the village squares, Paulo Raimundo urged them to harness the “desire to resume the work that was interrupted” and the “good anxiety” they feel, to appeal for the vote of the electorate, including those who chose to vote for other political forces in previous elections.
“Even those who, for this or that reason, voted for what the PS wanted to impose as change, know that here is the strength, the coherence, because they know and recognize these people, they know they are honest, sincere, and the only thing that motivates them is to serve the population and never themselves,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the CDU’s candidate for the Mora Municipal Council, Luís Simão—who presided over the council from 2013 to 2021—set as his goal not only to retake the Municipal Council but also to be the frontrunner in all parishes.
The candidate emphasized that in the 45 years the communists led the municipality, there were “projects completed in every mandate, everywhere,” but “after 45 years, in the 46th, it went wrong.”
“And it went wrong because, in fact, we lost the municipality. This was unthinkable a few years ago, but it happened and since it happened, allow me to say, these were the worst four years of democratic local power in our council and today practically everyone in the population recognizes this,” he said.
Luís Simão stated that during the PS’s four years of governance in Mora, a “stagnation in municipal management” was installed, human resources were managed “disastrously” and the “operating activity was completely reduced.”
In contrast, the CDU candidate said he intends to “continue building a different, distinctive municipality, as it always was,” assuring that in the next four years, the municipality will have land where young people “can build at controlled prices.”
