The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda announced that she will not run for a new term. In a message sent to the militants, Mortágua justified the decision with the fact that the set objective had not been achieved.
“I inform you that I have decided not to apply for a new term as coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda. I make this decision with the tranquility that the constant support of all my comrades has given me throughout this time”, wrote Marina Mortágua, remembering that when she took on this challenge two and a half years ago she did so knowing the “difficult political conditions” of the left and the Left Bloc, “After the collapse of the absolute majority of the PS and with the reinforcement of the right and the extreme right, it was necessary to find other paths”, she recalls.
“I consider that this objective was not achieved. Not only because it continued to reduction of the Bloc’s electoral spacebut also because the renovation we carried out then did not prove to be enough to relaunch our social intervention“, he justifies.
“I do this because I believe that the Bloc will benefit from having, in coordination and in parliament, people with better conditions than those I have today to give voice to the party”, he adds.
“In these two and a half years, the precipitation of successive electoral campaigns took space and time from our internal reflection and hindered an effective transformation of the Bloc’s functioning. The leadership headed by me was unable to reverse the excessive centralization of the Bloc’s structure and generate a new political and electoral impulse“, he assumes, also referring to the “committed hate campaigns” of his opponents. “But the truth is that we were unable to neutralize them”, he says.
Mariana Mortágua states that it will be up to each of the motions present at the next Convention to present their alternative directions and warns that “the left in general – and the Bloc in particular – is going through a difficult period and it’s not just in our country”.
The post Decision not to re-candidate in the Left Bloc appeared first on Veritas News.
