Lisbon AM defends building democracy in Portugal
NoWithin the scope of the commemorations of 25 April and 1st May, the deputies approved 15 votes of greeting, namely PSD, PS, IL, BE, PCP, PEV, Livre, CDS-PP, PAN and independents of Cidadãos by Lisbon (elected by the PS/Livre coalition).
“In a gray threat that threatens to cloud the self-termination of peoples, peace, democracy of nations and individual freedom, the return to celebrate April”, said the period of municipal freedom of PSD Luís Newton, period of the 25th period of freedom, as achievements of the April Revolution. 1974, which “can never again be called into question”.
In the PSD’s greeting vote “April 25th — Freedom Forever!”, the Social Democrats say that the war in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion makes “unearth ghosts of the past, dividing humanity, pitting one against the other “, so the celebration of the 48th anniversary of the April Revolution is “of particular importance”.
From the PS bench, Simonetta Luz Afonso presented her vote of greeting for the 25th of April 1974 and for the 1st of May, celebrating the achievements so that “never be distorted”, namely the welfare state, the National Health Service, the right equal rights, social rights, the fight against gender violence, the expression of the right to child labor, the fight against social exclusion, the fight against racism, freedom, work, the minimum and social pensions, the union social housing, liberties, national holidays and leave from justice.
The socialist said that the April Revolution arose from “an unshakable desire, stressing that, like the times currently living in Europe, peace can never be taken for granted”.
António Valente’s deputy also welcomed the data for freedom, rights and guarantees no. war” can take for granted” and Jorge Nuno Sá, from Aliança, showed carnations the color of the Ukrainian flag to defend freedom: “Long live the carnations of all colors”, he said.
“The work of building democracy will never be finished and the CDS wants to be present in this construction and because it knows that it makes a difference”, declared centrist deputy Isabel Galriça Neto, highlighting the values of democracy, freedom and peace and defining the importance of also commemorating the date of November 25, 1975.
Enough, António Oliveira Martins de said that the Revolution of the 25th of April 1974 “brought to Portugal the dream of the stain, the dream of the stain from the beginning with the attempt of the extreme left forces of freedom to usurp power and implant in Portugal a republic socialist in the good Soviet way”.
Classifying decolonization as “tragic” and also praising the 25th of November, because it was on that mature date that the country “entered the true path of democracy, which should be, but is not”, António Oliveira Martins also criticized socialism that “delays ” , they have a nation and a people” and in “the clientelism they have a nation that kills, the lack of national values in Portugal”.
Already an IL deputy, including Teresa, began by saying that “just because now it’s not a free country to say freedom”, the Government freed children and teachers from the masks in the classroom and we are not entitled to choice in western education and healthcare: We are not free when we have the lowest rights in Europe.
municipal group of the PCP, Pedro Frias stated that, “contrary to what many would like and insidious through their successive campaigns to whitewash fascism, attempts to reintegrate history and the years of managing the collective conscience, 48 were not enough to destroy Whereas the current reality-disturbing scenario, the lies en through blatant manipulation of truth information and truth visibility “the same before the effects April 5th”.
Democracy, equality and solidarity”.
For Livre, Isabel Mendes Lopes warned of the constant threat to freedom and the free and “the normalization and growth of the extreme right”, while the independence of Miguel Graça Estadosu reinforces that “without the incessant search for freedom among all, there is no freedom”.
Before the meeting, the Lisbon Municipal Assembly paid tribute to the previous one of this deliberative body of the president, José Leitão (PS), current municipality organized by the president, Rosário Farmhouse (PS), who praised his predecessor for the fight against fascism and discrimination, defense of ecology and environmental sustainability and commitment to public causes.
Rosário Farmhouse also said that the choice of the day after April 25 to honor and thank the work of José Leitão in the Lisbon Municipal Assembly represents the “fight against tyranny, oppression, racism and discrimination”, in which it is I need to tear down walls and hatred.
“We won not through weapons, but through the justice of our values”, he stressed.
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