Paulo Veiga seeks to bring Cape Verde’s MpD closer to its grassroots
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Expresso das Ilhas
The new president of Cape Verde’s Movement for Democracy, Paulo Veiga, acknowledges that parties have lost voters’ trust and promises to bring the MpD closer to its grassroots. He partly attributes the party’s decline to losing 39,000 members in 10 years and political disenchantment, in an interview with Expresso das Ilhas.
Paulo Veiga, the new president of the Movement for Democracy (MpD), Cape Verde’s main opposition party, wants to bring the political organisation closer to its grassroots. In his first interview after the party convention, he acknowledged that political parties had lost voters’ trust by making promises without explaining that change is built gradually, Expresso das Ilhas reports.
The MpD leader also questioned the financial sustainability of the exemption from school fees and the reduction in boat and air-fare prices introduced by the government of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). In a motion presented at the convention, he said that the MpD had lost 39,000 members in 10 years and that abstention had reached historic levels, according to Expresso das Ilhas.
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