Paulo Raimundo attended a campaign dinner at the Parque de Feiras e Exposições in the town of Serpa, in the Beja district, a municipality governed by coalitions led by the PCP since 1976. The party’s secretary-general was greeted festively by several hundred supporters.
“We are growing with each day and every interaction we have, bringing more people to this project, which is also theirs. We are on the ground building, with the local communities, towards a great victory on the 12th,” stated Paulo Raimundo.
The PCP secretary-general urged militants to harness the “growth momentum” around the CDU, encouraging them to mobilize and persuade more citizens to lend their “support to this movement, which is theirs.”
“Let’s do everything we can to bring them to their project, with confidence and pride in what we have achieved, looking towards the future,” he asserted.
Paulo Raimundo stressed that the CDU “is not so arrogant as to claim perfection over years of just and remarkable management” in Serpa.
“Certainly, we haven’t done everything perfectly, but there’s one thing we won’t tolerate: no matter who comes, from wherever, to undermine our work, which has always been in the service of the people and only the people,” he declared.
The PCP leader highlighted that the CDU has “decades of work, honesty, and competence” in Serpa, in harmony with the “identity of this land, built through years of resistance and struggle.”
“We are going to renew the local government here in Serpa. The CDU will achieve a significant victory on October 12 in Serpa,” he said, emphasizing the coalition’s demand for a public hospital in the city, a secondary school, and the electrification of railway lines.
João Dias, the CDU’s lead candidate for the Serpa Municipal Council and a former deputy, emphasized in his speech that, if elected, he plans to “establish technology-based companies in the district,” develop “industrial and economic zones,” and ensure higher education is available locally.
“It’s becoming increasingly difficult for us to send our young people to study in Lisbon or anywhere else. If it’s hard to send our youths away, higher education must come to us,” he remarked.
João Dias expressed confidence that the people of Serpa would “know how to separate the wheat from the chaff” and issued a call to action to the militants.
“Let’s focus on ourselves, comrades and friends. Forget the others. Let’s achieve an excellent electoral result in the coming days,” he urged.
