The direction of the Humanitarian Association of Volunteer Firefighters of Beja (AHBVB) will present a re-candidacy list for the next day’s election 28 March.
In a statement, the management of the institution chaired by Rodeia Machado, states that the presentation of the candidacy “is interpreting the will and pressure of many members and why it cannot be left “the power vacuum” settle in the institution”, justify. It is not mentioned whether he himself is re-running for a new term or whether there will be another figure heading the candidate list for the three-year term. 2024/2026.
Remembering that since October 2022, when the management presented the resignation, which was later reversed, “in two electoral acts that were left deserted, and more recently the only competing list was rejected for not complying with the statutes.”, remember.
No document, the management justifies the presentation of the candidacy “it is an ethical and moral obligation”, starting by remembering that “it is not known whether or not there are any candidate lists”, for what, maintains the management “don’t run the risk of perpetuating a situation that should have been resolved a long time ago”, conclude.
It is recalled that in the first General Electoral Assembly of the AHBVB, calls to elect the Social Bodies, for the day 18 December 2023, it was canceled “due to the only competing list being rejected for not complying with statutory standards”, having been justified that “at an opportune date a new General Assembly will be called for this purpose”. On 5 December last year, deadline for submitting lists, only a single application was received at the Administrative Services, led by Jerónimo Picado, for the Social Bodies of the Humanitarian Association of Volunteer Firefighters of Beja (AHBVB).
According to a notice signed by the President of the Board of the General Assembly, Manuel Pedro Saborida Gonçalves and published in the newspaper Diário do Alentejo, “by decision of the General Assembly meeting of 3 January 2024, and after the opinion of the Portuguese Firefighters League on the interpretation of the Statutes”, The electoral process for the election of Governing Bodies for the three-year period is open 2024/2026. The lists must be received at the Secretariat by 18 horas do dia 15 March. In another notice of the same style, The General Electoral Assembly was called for the day 28 March, by 18 hours at the Association Headquarters located on Avenida Fialho de Almeida, n.º 30 in Beja. The electoral act will take place between 18:30 h e as 20:30hours.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
