PT wing in Tocantins tries to block Kátia Abreu from joining
PT members in Tocantins asked the party’s national leadership this Saturday that the membership of former minister and former senator Kátia Abreu be invalidated. The request was made by a minority group within the party, Articulação de Esquerda. According to interlocutors, however, the national management should not accept the request and affiliation tends to be confirmed.
Kátia Abreu was Minister of Agriculture under former president Dilma Rousseff and officially joined the PT in Tocantins this Saturday. Before, she was in PP. In a video published on social media, she said that the invitation to change parties was reinforced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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“And thank President Lula, who also reinforces this invitation to join the PT of Tocantins. We will be together in this fight for democracy and the re-election of President Lula”, said Kátia Abreu, alongside the party’s presidents in Tocantins, Nile William, and in Palmas, Rosimar Mendes.
According to a document obtained by GLOBO, the request from members of Articulação de Esquerda mentions that the PT state directory in Tocantins did not meet to deliberate on membership and that Abreu’s political practice “does not demonstrate commitment” to articles of the party’s statute.
“The Workers’ Party (PT) is a voluntary association of citizens who propose to fight for democracy, plurality, solidarity, political, social, institutional, economic, legal and cultural transformations, aimed at eliminating exploitation, domination, oppression, inequality, injustice and misery, with the aim of building democratic socialism”, says an excerpt from the statute cited in the request.
The request, made by Fabiano Kenji Nohama, Heloísa Lias da Silva, Hílton Faria da Silva, Jozafá Ribeiro Maciel and Maria da Penha da Silva, also says that Kátia Abreu “has always been a representative of landowners and agribusiness multinationals”, positioning herself against agrarian reform and rural workers’ organizations.
“We hereby challenge Kátia Regina Abreu’s membership of the PT for the reasons explained above. The PT is not the party of the latifundium, slave labor or the bourgeoisie”, they argue.
“The PT is the party of the working class that fights for a society of equality and justice, for agrarian reform and urban reform, for the freedom of organization of workers, for socialism”, they add.
