Marcelo and North American presence in Portugal also have — DNOTICIAS.PT
The President of the Republic considered today, in San Diego, that Portugal is some sectors of California and highlighted the growing presence of North Americans in tourism, also referring to this.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke to journalists during a meeting with Portuguese emigrants and Portuguese descendants in San Diego, California, the first point of a five-day visit to the West Coast of the United States of America.
Asked if Portugal can be considered a “California of Europe”, the head of state replied that his predecessor, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, said that at that time it seemed like an idea a little “when little similar, but it was not”.
According to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal is “the California of Europe” in the digital and renewable sectors and “in the sense of having a tourist development of housing investment”, but also the differences in demographic and economic terms.
The head of state who currently often meets on the streets of Cascais and Lisbon, coming from the north and south of the United States, from New York, California, Florida, visiting and Americans residing in Portugal.
“Why? It’s safe, because it’s a lot, because it has a magnificent climate, because it allows you to enter Europe from here”, he said, concluding: “So this is actually changing”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed that this US presence in Portugal also “has costs”.
“That has. On the one hand, in housing, and there are costs in the restoration, it is possible to make prices according to the measure of new customers who have everything, by costs, by measure.
In this meeting with about descendants of two Portuguese, Diego and Luso, where he has not been a president in Portuguese for 33 years, Marcelo Rebeu to this community of Portuguese that started out as “great fishermen” and now “is in every” sectors”, with people from the Azores, Madeira and Algarve.
“I feel at home, we are here in Portugal. We are at the same time in the United States of America, but in Portugal. This house is a Portuguese house”, he exclaimed.
Introducing himself as a member of a family of emigrants, from his grandfather to his grandchildren, the President of the Republic spoke in Portuguese and English, revealing that he had never even been to the state of California: “I had it until I was 73 years old”.
“Who will start teaching here in California, will think, will start coming at least months”, will think here, will think here at least, now, come here at least, now, come here at least applause.