Convention of the Progressive Alliance : A Progressive Agenda for the Future of Work, Sustainability and Solidarity
Friday, 15 November 2019
Venue: Folkets Hus, Barnhusgatan 12-14, Stockholm
08:00 hrs Registration
09:00 hrs Meeting of the Steering Committee
All parties and associated organisations of the Progressive Alliance are entitled to send delegates to the Steering Committee.
In this meeting the Steering Committee elects the 40 member parties of the Board.
The Steering Committee prepares the convention, discusses resolutions and the upcoming activities of the Progressive Alliance.
Chaired by Konstantin Woinoff, Coordinator, Progressive Alliance
- Presentation and Discussion of the Political Working Agenda
Rapporteur: Conny Reuter, Secretary General, SOLIDAR
- Presentation, Discussion of and Vote on Amendments of the Guiding Principles
Rapporteur: Konstantin Woinoff
- Election of two delegates for the Credentials and Tellers Committee
- Election of the Board
- Presentation, discussion of and vote on the resolutions
- Resolution on Thailand
Rapporteur: Machris Cabreros, Coordinator, Network for Social Democracy in Asia (SocDem Asia)
- Resolution on Brazil
Rapporteur: Humberto Costa, Senator, Workers’ Party (PT), Brazil
- Resolution on Cameroon
Rapporteur: Josh Osih, Coordinator, Central African Progressive Alliance (CAPA)
- Resolution on Middle East
Rapporteurs: Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General, Palestinian National Initiative, Palestine, Eran Hermoni, Secretry General, Labour Party, Israel, Tamar Zandberg, Member of the Knesset, Meretz Party, Israel, Faraj Zayoud, Fatah, Palestine
- Resolution on Feminism Against the Right
Rapporteurs: Marja Bijl and Bahia Amra, Co-Chairs of the Gender Equality Working Group of the Progressive Alliance
- Resolution on Climate Change
Rapporteur: Jean-Marc Germain, International Secretary, Socialist Party, France
- Presentation of the results of the Working Group on “Digital Capitalism”Rapporteurs: Thorben Albrecht, Federal Manager, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
- Discussion on membership applications
Rapporteur: Konstantin Woinoff
11:00 hrs Coffee Break
12:00 hrs Lunch
11:30 hrs Board and Leaders Meeting
The new elected Board convenes in this first meeting to discusses and sets the political guidelines, takes decisions, inter alia, on membership and further organisation policy issues as well as to elect the Coordinator and appoint the Auditor.
Leaders of parties that have no representative on the Board are invited to participate in the meeting without voting rights.
Chaired by Stefan Löfven, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden (SAP) and Prime Minister of Sweden
- Vote on membership applications
- Election of the Auditor and Coordinator
- Vote on the Political Working Agenda
- Progressive Politics for the 21st Century: Strategies and International Alliances with Trade Unions and Civil Society
- A Global Deal for Climate, Jobs and Solidarity
- Fighting Authoritarian and Right-wing Populist Movements
- Challenges for Peace and Global Cooperation
13:00 hrs Lunch for Board members only
13:45 hrs Family photo in the plenary hall
14:00 hrs Plenary session
14:00 hrs Opening and welcome
Stefan Löfven, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden (SAP) and Prime Minister of Sweden
14:15 hrs Keynote speech on A new progressive era
António Costa, Secretary General of the Socialist Party (PS) and Prime Minister of Portugal
14:30 hrs A new progressive era
António Costa, Secretary General of the Socialist Party (PS) and Prime Minister of Portugal
Risa Hontiveros, Senator and Chair of the Citizens’ Action Party (Akbayan)
Stefan Löfven, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden (SAP) and Prime Minister of Sweden
Carlos Lopes, Professor the Mandela School, University of Cape Town
Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)
Olaf Scholz, Vice Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Vice Chancellor of Germany
Manish Tewari, Member of Parliament and National Spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC)
15:30 hrs Climate change and a sustainable society
Magdalena Andersson, Minister of Finance, Sweden
Sharan Burrow, Secretary General of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Alvaro Elizalde, Senator and President of the Socialist Party of Chile (PSCh)
Iratxe Garcia, President of the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D)
Tamar Khulordava, Member of Parliament, Georgian Dream Party
Ana Pirtskhalava, Secretary General of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY)
Frans Timmermans, First Vice President of the European Commission
16:30 hrs Coffee Break
17:00 hrs Global deal for jobs in a digital era
Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Minister of Finance of Malaysia
Javier López, Member of the European Parliament, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), Spain
Ruth Manorama, Janata Dal (Secular), India, President of the National Dalit Women Federation, Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award
Antti Rinne, Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Prime Minister of Finland
Maria João Rodrigues, President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
Wayne Swan, President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)
Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, President of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO)
18:00 hrs Peace and security
Ann Linde, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden
Vijay Makhan, Responsible for International Relations, Mauritius Militant Movement (MMM)
Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa (tbc)
Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of Palestine
Jonas Gahr Støre, President of the Labour Party Norway
Emily Thornberry, Member of Parliament, UK Labour Party (tbc)
Tamar Zandberg, Member of the Knesset, Meretz Party Israel
Zoran Zaev, Prime Minister of North Macedonia
19:00 hrs Progressive Alliance Award 2019 to Selahattin Demirtaş
Laudatory speeches by
Peter Hultqvist, Minister of Defence, Sweden
Sergei Stanishev, President of the Party of European Socialists (PES)
Speech :
Başak Demirtaş
19:30 hrs End
19:45 hrs Dinner hosted by the Social Democratic Party of Sweden (SAP) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO)
Saturday, 16 November 2019
Please find the program for Saturday in a separate document.
