The non-approval of the OE brought back, earlier than many previous ones, the question of the country’s governability, not of the management of the present, but of a future that can make a difference with a past not always of good memories and allow the country to be catapulted to levels of development that the entire population craves and that only a backbone of successive errors and ancestral atavisms can prevent.

Naturally, everyone looks at reality with their own gaze and it is impossible and disastrous to expect unanimity in the direction of the country, but it would not be foolish to think that it is possible to establish a minimum common denominator between political options that manage to negotiate a credible and susceptible program collect the majority vote of the population.

This is a favorable moment to challenge the Manichean logics and to open a window of new opportunities to confront the Portuguese and the Portuguese with the future they want to build collectively.

In recent years, the country has lived with successive lies turned into assumed truths for the consumption of clientele and the creation of smokescreens that hide the real national problems and allowed to project a reality on the screen of political spectacle that only exists in the booklets of party directories.

First, it was the passist lie that all the males in the last bailout were the result of Socialist Party governance. It was, but not only, the sub prime crisis was the trigger of an international crisis that caught us in a tight curve and destroyed the national finances that survived in an unstable equilibrium and that collapsed like a house of cards.

Then there was the lie of the demonization of the Troika, as if there were alternatives for a country in the hands of international creditors and a government forced to negotiate on its knees under their pressure and convinced that it had to do more to gain the trust of the financial principals.

Then there was the lie that the “Geringonça” was going to bury austerity and lead the country towards development, without a critical and contextualized analysis of pre-rescue governance, the harms and benefits of the Troika protectorate period and, worse, pretending -to believe that parties with visions of the past and foundational references of societies that generate poverty could help the country to move towards a future of development.

Finally, the lie that it was possible to negotiate and approve the OE for 2022, when it had been perceived for a long time that the processes of the contraband parties were increasingly divergent, that the obligations were incompatible with the growing demands of the PCP and the BE, which the local authorities added added to the added instability due to the results in the loss of the group and the trauma of the PS defeat in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra.

Now there are multiplying those who lament the “crisis”, as if it were possible to believe that the maintenance of the “Gizmo” era favorable to a country that has been living in a swamp for a long time, and that it was preferable to keep this creation rather than give the word back to the / to voters / as and give them the opportunity to redefine a path for the future.

And when we arrived here, it is important to realize what room for maneuver each of us has to be able to follow the course of events and how the partisans will “make the head” of their electorate, and it is essential to create conditions to call the old ones to decision-making. they disbelieve in politics or are simply disinterested in public affairs and dispense with voting.

From what can be seen, there are two currents, those who want to repeat the “Gangonça”, arguing that the right has no solutions and can only gain if it associates with the far right, and those who only see solutions on the right, even if for that having to sell your soul to the devil. The Manichaeism of the costume is re-edited, which had such bad results it did not lead the population away from civic life, and solutions of understanding at the center were immediately excluded.

The so-called center is not a good memory, but the country cannot be conditioned by past experiences that went wrong. Of course we are not naive and we all know that directors and party militants do not only move for high national goals, many make politics their important life, outside politics they are insignificant, they do not even have a professional life, and that is why they fight desperately for maintain places and sinecures and not how to share with people from other clubs, but the national interest has to be placed above the small personal interests.

It is therefore imperative that, among the post-electoral hypotheses, there is a possibility of understanding at the center. We are not dealing with mere partisan interests, it is the future, stability and development of the country that are at stake and we do not live on the left or on the right, something that does not exist.

The options of each one are respectable, but in sustainability what is important is to find the solution that best national the well-being of the majority in the present and that of the country in the future. Deciding on mere ideological principles is the best route to disaster. The best solution implies serious discussion and clear options, having as reference the European framework, international alliances, market strategies and the country’s Atlantic vocation. We are not condemned to choose only between the left or the right, Portuguese society is plural and if there is an evident ideological majority, it is a social democracy, which spreads through the PS and the PSD and by many abstentionists.

When it is said that change is won at the center, it means that there is an awareness of the importance of centripetal moldings in reference to the extremes, which have their place but cannot be confused with elements of stability. Majorities are only virtuous when they have a clear strategy based on the common effort to develop the country with social justice, but also with economic policies that ensure an improvement in living conditions and expectations for the future of the majority of Portuguese and Portuguese people.