To organize the National Assembly, which will elect a new leadership, the Block wanted to raise 80,000 euros. I only got 7k.

For the organization of the XIII Congress, which will be held on May 27 and 28, the Eskerda Block organized a “fundraising”, during which it demanded the support of militants in the amount of 80 thousand euros, “thousands of people, supporters and supporters, solidarity people committed to building strong socialists, environmentalists, feminists and the popular left. However, Expresso is moving forward this Thursday and has only managed to raise €7,000 with fewer than 200 people participating.

It is at this weekend’s meeting that the new leadership of the Left Bloc will be chosen, with favoritism on the side of MP Mariana Mortagua. Katarina Martinsformer coordinator, will remain at the head of the party and take the place of Mortagua in the “Linhas Vermelhas” program at SIC Notícias.

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Despite the financial difficulties that began in the latest legislative period and make activists question whether they are paying “the tithe to the Church”, the manual points out a strategy for creating a “social majority”, obliging the construction of a political alternative to the left, including the Left Bloc. At Expresso and after a difficult fundraiser, MP José Soeiro explained that “the idea of ​​do-it-yourself campaigning is engagement, commitment” and recalled other previously tested initiatives, such as, for example, an auction of works donated by artists.