Liberal initiative goes to elections
The liberal initiative (IL) goes to elections following the dismissal of Rui Rocha as chairman of the Executive Committee. The vice-presidents refused to take office and the secretary general, Miguel Rangel assumes the interim leadership until a new convention and election of the party’s executive committee.
According to information that Sol was accessed this Sunday, following the resignation of Rui Rocha « communicated the vice-presidents who do not intend to hold their statutory prerogative to assume the position of chairman of the exumed committee. » The decision aims to « give the word to members of the liberal initiative to elect a new president. »
Thus, according to the party’s statutes, the Executive Committee will remain in management, under the coordination of its secretary general until the election in a convention of New President and its Executive Committee.
The current secretary general of IL is Miguel Rangel, deputy elected by the circle of Porto in the last legislative elections.
However, it knows the sunrise, the “national counselors” and many party base members are concerned about the situation, namely the financial cost and time that has the organization of a convention.
Article 27 of the IL Statutes stipulates that “if, in the course of a mandate, there is a definitive resignation or impediment of the party body, its replacement, until the end of the ongoing term of office shall observe the following: a) being the chairman of the Executive Committee, the position will assume a vice president by order of the list that elected it”.
Then, he adds, the “impossibility of this substitution implies the dismissal of the Executive Committee and the convening of a National Convention for the election of a new executive committee, but the final management functions and under the coordination of the Secretary General”.
On Saturday, the sunrise reported That the party could not have to call elections if a vice-president took the lead after Rui Rocha’s resignation, which was not verified.
