Ana Carvalho is the new president of Volt Portugal – Observer
Engineer Ana Carvalho was elected president of the board of Volt Portugal and Duarte Costa vice-president, in the president who took place in Setúbal, but both intend to manage the party as co-presidents, an official source told Lusa this Sunday.
The second party congress, which took place this weekend, elected the new national bodies for the 2022-2024 biennium, which includes a new national political leadership and commission.
“The new direction of Volt Portugal is chaired by Ana Carvalho, with Duarte Costa as vice-president,” the party said in a statement.
An official party source said that “both candidates ran for Volt Portugal under a co-leadership platform, where both share the position of co-presidents”.
Ana Carvalho, 26, is an engineer and works in the field of renewable energy, after having studied electrical and computer engineering, and joined the party years ago, according to Volt Portugal.
“He threw himself into politics through student associations and the defense of LGBTQIA+ rights, he fell in love with the role of the European Union and its potential as a party”, said ocinho.
In turn, Duarte Costa, 34, from Lisbon, is a specialist in European climate policies, graduated in Geography from the University of Lisbon and has a master’s degree in climate change and policies.
According to information from the radical party, Duarte for Vol. for believing that the solutions for the construction of the crisis of radical questions, fundamental questions of society, the radical problems in the EU, the fight the radical problems as pro and combat to be “Pan-Europeanism is the path of unity that Europe needs” .
For the National Political Commission, “members Yannick Schade, André Eira, Catia Sofia Lopes Geraldes, Inês Reis dos Santos, Pedro Malheiro, Ralf Medernach, Silke Jellene, Susana João Monteiro Carneiro, Tânia Girão, Vitor Moreira and Tiago Silva were elected” , adds.
The Volunteer of Portugal indicated that, in addition to the new national bodies, “thematic categories and various thematic categories were also examples in areas as diverse as, by sector, universal basic income or the centrality of universal basic education”.
On May 24, the former president of Volt Portugal told Lusa that he had resigned because he disagreed with the ideological rumor that the political force was following the European and national level, positioning itself “increasingly to the left” and party – from its “original matrix”.
“The main reason has to do with ideological issues. The Volt over time deviated from what was its original matrix and its original ideology to position itself more and more to the left”, maintained, at the time, Tiago Matos Gomes, in detours to the Lusa agency.
Matos Gomes had already stated that he would not re-candidate for the leadership of Volt Portugal at the congress scheduled for this weekend.
Two days later, the Volt did not establish itself politically “neither the right reaffirmed the left, nor the right reject the left as critics of the previous president.
Volt Europa is a federalist and “pan-European” party that emerged internationally as a movement in March 2017, as a reaction to ‘Brexit’, initiated by a collective of students in the US. Andrea Venzon is the founder of this movement, which is already a political party in several countries, namely in Portugal, Germany, Bulgaria, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, France, United Kingdom or Sweden.
The movement emerged in Portugal on December 28, 2017 and was made official as a political party by the Constitutional Court in June 2020.