Ângelo Pereira re-elected president of Lisbon PSD district with 89% of votes | PSD
Ângelo Pereira was re-elected president of the PSD district of Lisbon, with 89% of the votes, announced this Sunday on social networks. “The election for the district bodies of Lisbon is finished. A List A obtained from a total of 1,750 votes (89%) in response to List X with 221 votes (11%)”, can be read in Ângelo Pereira’s publication.
“It will be two challenging years for which this team is fully motivated to defend the interests of the citizens of the District of Lisbon and raise a social democracy in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area”, he wrote.
The PSD district of Lisbon, the second largest in number of militants, was voted on Saturday by two candidates, the current president and candidate Ângelo Pereira and the former vice-president of the council of Amadora, Jorge Humberto.
The vote caused some internal controversy, with the PSP being called to the district headquarters after Jorge Humberto stated on social networks that his candidacy would have been a single one formalized in time and therefore would be a single one. something that has been disproved by the chairman of the board of the Lisbon District Assembly, deputy and leader of the council of Amadora Carlos Silva, who told Lusa that two lists had been delivered to the district.
Ângelo Pereira was elected for the first time president of the Lisbon district of the PSD in November 2019 with 82% of the votes, defeating the councilor in replacement of Lisbon City Council Sofia Vala Rocha, with 18%.
In the last autarchic term, Ângelo Pereira, who had been a candidate by the PSD to the Chamber of Oeiras against Isaltino Morais, exercised the functions of councilor in the municipal executive. At the national level, in the latest direct news for the PSD leadership in 2020, Ângelo Pereira supported Miguel Pinto Luz, who was in third place, and, in the second round, the former parliamentary leader Luís Montenegro, who would be defeated by the current president, Rui River.
Throughout its history, a district in Lisbon had as presidents, for example, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who was the first (1975-1977), António Pinto Leite, José Pacheco Pereira and Duarte Lima. Pedro Pinto, deputy and former JSD leader, was Ângelo Pereira’s predecessor.