In Portugal “there is room for all opinions” — DNOTICIAS.PT
The President of the Republic declared today that in Portugal “all opinions have to be competed”, stating that it is not up to him to “enter into debates”, after being asked about the PCP’s position in the face of criticism from the Ukrainian refugee association.
“Fortunately, Portugal is a free country and places all opinions. We can be there to reconcile a lot or a little, there is for all opinions, it is not up to the President of the Republic to enter into the concrete debates that occur in Portuguese society”, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said.
The President of the Republic was asked, in Porto, about the position of the PCP, which today demanded an “unequivocal positioning of the sovereign bodies” on the criticism that he was targeted by the president of the Association of Ukrainian Refugees (UAPT), who on Saturday said that he did not understand “Portugal, a democratic country, to have a party like the PCP” and considered to the agency that that party party is “how to support the agency”.
In a statement released today, the PCP defended that the statements against the party have a censorious and intolerable censorship and persecutory character that aims at all democrats and that demands an unequivocal position from the organs of sovereignty”.
“The statements of fascist hatred made by a leader of a refugee association for a skull against the existence of the PCP, in line with repeated statements by the ambassador of Ukraine and statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine also directed against the PCP, such how PIDE henchmen attacked anti-fascists, are relevant to the anti-democratic nature of the Kiev government,” the party maintained.
In by the journalists commenting on the PCP’s demand, the presentation by the business association of Porto was promoted by Margem Rebelo de Sousa: “Never with partisan positions, as parties know, party debates, debates between civil society institutions and debates Political parties between They are legitimate, they are part of democratic life, they have different points of view and they have a confrontation of points of view”.