Autárquicas'2024: “This is a very special year for MpD” – Ulisses Correia e Silva
The president of the Movement for Democracy (MpD, power) said, this Friday, 15th, at night in Santo Antão, that this year is “very special” for his party, as it is the year of local elections in Cape Verde .
Ulisses Correia e Silva, who was speaking at the ceremony commemorating the 34th anniversary of the founding of the MpD, which took place in the city of Porto Novo, said that the party has already chosen “good candidates” for mayors to “win and govern well ” the municipalities.
“ The MpD has already chosen good mayors, it will choose good candidates for presidents of municipal assemblies. The objective is to win to govern the municipalities well and respond to the desires and expectations of Cape Verdeans ”, stated the politician.
For Ulisses Correia e Silva, “ more than ever ”, the MpD must be “united and cohesive ”, since working together “ there is no PAICV [opposition] that can beat the MpD ”, which will compete with “good candidates and good programs and have the trust of the people ”.
The MpD, a party that has been in power in Cape Verde since 2016, marked its 34th anniversary in Santo Antão with the presence of national and local leaders, as well as the party's national deputies, who are on the island for decentralized parliamentary days.
For the party leader, celebrating the MpD's anniversary in Santo Antão is “ very special, as it was on this island that the first cry for freedom echoed throughout the country ”, which were the events of August 31, 1981.
“ Therefore, it is very symbolic and fair to celebrate the anniversary of the MpD in Santo Antão, an island that rhymes very well with freedoms and democracy” , noted Ulisses Correia e Silva, for whom his party, founded in 1990, with political openness in Cape Verde, “ de facto changed ” Cape Verde.
“Today we are a reference democracy at a global level. We are a freer country in Africa and none of this would be possible without the 13th of January 1991 [date of the first free elections in Cape Verde], without the Constitution of the Republic of 1992 and without the MpD” , he said, also highlighting the fact that the archipelago is one of the best countries on the African continent in terms of economic freedoms.
Thirty-four after its creation, the MpD “ remains strong ”, said the leader of the ruling party, believing that due to the “ confidence ” enjoyed by Cape Verdeans, the MpD will “ continue to be the party with the majority of municipal councils ” in this year’s municipal elections.
Still in his speech, to hundreds of MpD leaders and activists, Ulisses Correia e Silva recognized “ the work ” of the mayors elected by this party, who are not candidates for their own succession, namely Orlando Delgado, António Aleixo, Alberto Nunes, Jassira Monteiro and José Freitas.
When referring to Jassira Monteiro, the president of the Santa Catarina de Santiago City Council, the MpD leader praised the “ work” that she has done “for Santa Catarina”, adding that she “remains engaged” despite all the “attempts to create a feeling of revolt” as she is the only woman to preside over a municipal council in Cape Verde.
The celebrations of the 34th anniversary of the founding of the MpD in Santo Antão, for the party president, represent “ the launch of a journey towards the next victories ”, assuming as “ the objective and commitment” win this year's local authorities and the 2026 legislative elections.
As part of the celebrations, Ulisses Correia e Silva paid tribute to several MpD activists in Santo Antão.
