Santos Silva congratulates Pichardo and salutes Portugal as a country of integration – Sociedade
The President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, congratulated the Portuguese athlete Pedro Pichardo, of Cuban origin, on the title of world triple jump champion and hailed Portugal as a “country of reception and integration”.
“Congratulations to the new triple jump world champion, Pedro Pablo Pichardo! Congratulations to Portugal, host and integration country”, wrote Augusto Santos Silva on his Twitter account.
Pedro Pablo Pio America of the world made the big leap from the 2022 World Championships in Athletics at the 2022 World Championships in Athletics in United States of America.
On Thursday, the President of the Assembly of the Republic had a controversy with the territory of the leader and Chega, André Ventura, when there is a debate in plenary or legal regime, the departure and entry of foreigners of national permanence.
After Ventura had a speech against the word of Augusto Santos Silva, he even took the floor and said: , that here and here they contribute to our social security, to our collective life, to our social security, to our collective life as our others, for our open citizenship and for our collective life as our others.
Then, the bench left the parliamentary work.
Pichardo, 29, added the title of world champion to the gold medal won at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo on August 5 of last year, and became the seventh Portuguese to win a world championship in athletics, after by Fernanda Ribeiro, Manuela Machado, Carla Sacramento, Inês Henriques, Rosa Mota and Nelson Évora.
This was the first medal for Portugal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, in the US state of Oregon.
Pichardo leads the world triple jump ‘ranking’ and won the 2021 Diamond League.
Still as a Cuban, he won the 2013 world championships in Moscow and 2015 in Beijing. In 2019, in his debut as Portuguese, in Doha, in Doha, he finished in fourth position.