Ricardo Calé, from Olhão, was elected as the new president of the Algarve Socialist Youth Federation, during the XIII Regional Congress of the Algarve Socialist Youth Structure, which took place on December 12 in the Auditorium of the Portimão Museum.
Ricardo Calé has a Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Algarve, where he was founding president of the UAlg's Pharmaceutical Sciences Students Nucleus.
He is also a member of the National Political Committee of JS and a member of the Municipal Assembly of Olhão, among other representations in associative and political structures.
In addition to addressing important issues for young people in the region, such as employment, mobility, health and emigration, the Global Strategic Motion of its “Growing Together” candidacy reinforces the need to “bring young people closer to politics” through greater dynamism in the various municipalities of JS Algarve, since “it is necessary not only to keep young people who currently play roles in the area, but also to captivate the rest”. In this sense, the objective of the structure will be to “demystify to integrate”.
Ricardo Calé points out that “the growing concern of young people with their well-being and with the country, clearly evident in their conversations and social networks, is not yet reflected in their intervention in the public and party space”.
It considers it necessary to “end with the negative connotation that political parties have gained in the recent past” and show young people that “the first step towards change involves a more serious involvement in politics”.
During the JS/Algarve Congress, Marco Calapez (JS Monchique) was elected president of the Political Commission of Socialist Youth of the Algarve, as well as Tomás Policarpo (JS Loulé), Rebeca Martins (JS Loulé), Bruno Alves (JS Olhão), among others, for the same body. André Farias (JS) was elected president of the Federation Jurisdiction Commission Faro).
In this Congress, young socialists from the Algarve also had the opportunity to discuss and vote on the report of the outgoing president of the Federation, José Cardoso (JS Portimão), as well as to debate two sectoral motions, both unanimously approved: “For the end of youth abstention in elections Municipalities”, by Susana Joaquim (president JS Faro), and “União Algarve”, by Abel Matinhos (president JS Loulé).
Finally, the two Global Strategic Motions of the candidacies “Juventude que Faz” (Tomás Policarpo) and “Crescemos Juntos” (Ricardo Calé) were presented and debated, culminating in the election of the latter.
The closing of the Congress counted with the final intervention of the recently elected Ricardo Calé, who called for the union and participation of all the militants around the work that will be developed by the structure, in favor of the young people of the Algarve.
The vice-president of the Municipality of Portimão, Joaquim Castelão Rodrigues, António Eusébio, president of the PS/Algarve Federation and deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, as well as the representative of the National Secretariat for Socialist Youth, Tiago Gonçalves, also spoke.
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