A better Portugal
It could be thought that the circumstances inherent to electoral disputes always instigate a greater focus of contradictions and exacerbation of arguments in the affirmation of differences that are not always very sought after in the routine of ordinary days.
However, what could go from a mere feeling to an academic diagnosis (even statistically) sustained by the reality of our country, is increasingly an unavoidable reality that permeates the public operations of different protagonists from different quarters, politically aseptic.
In recent years, despite the enormous resources we have available – human, scientific, business, social, natural, heritage … -, and occasionally, citizens and institutions that manage to rise to the highest international levels, as we have accommodated ourselves to to be a “little bit” country.
It lacks ambition. A structured vision of the future is lacking. There is a lack of capacity for collective mobilization. There is a lack of concrete actions to follow the path that puts us on another level of development, with answers to the concrete needs of people.
At the session in support of his candidacy for the PSD leadership that took place on Saturday in Braga, Paulo Rangel said that we have seen the words “dream” and “hope” disappear from the lexicon of political leaders in recent years.
At the same time, and with great pragmatism, my friend Fernando Alexandre drew attention to the way in which we allow ourselves to be entangled in the “discussion of small things”.
In this same light, it is “completely incomprehensible the way in which political actors so often indulge in intense decisions that, in fact, leave everything practically the same”.
So many times, in the most diverse areas of governance, the feeling of movement is nothing more than an anesthetic for the realization of how much remains to be done, how much should be done to be called better.
The lack of consistency of those who have the first obligation to present this contract of trust with the Portuguese, as they seek to entrust them with the management of their future, only opens the door to extremist or doctrinal hysteria, of those who have fertile ground in this collective dissatisfaction.
That is why, at all times, we cannot offer any solution that takes us away from the path to a better Portugal, which allows us to collectively be and have as much as we can dream.
The strength we have in our hands is the strength that makes the future.
Mayor of Braga
