Adriano Moreira: a wisdom that spanned a century of generous Portugal
“Adriano Moreira is a wise man”, summarizes Paulo Portas, former president of the CDS and former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs. “Adriano’s current thinking is the ability to open and dialogue with other currents of opinion”, praises Augusto Santos Silva, President of the Assembly of the Republic and, like Portas, former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs. Two areas in which Portugal benefited from the wisdom of Adriano Moreira, the politician and academic who turns 100 this Tuesday. a century of lifewith democracy decades of service to Portugal in law in academia, politics, dictatorship and in.
“Much more than your remarkable political path, which is complex, I am impressed by Adriano Moreira’s great attachment to the University and the corresponding teaching profession”, says João Bosco Mota Amaral, in a statement to Expresso. This former president of the Regional Government of the Azores and of the Assembly of the Republic arranges Adriano Moreira’s political facet in the domain of the “complex” and prefers to exalt the “master” with influence across borders.
Adriano Moreira political prisoner in the dictatorship and Soares pattern in prison where they became friends for life. But he was also a minister in the Estado Novo, being associated with the end of the Portuguese second-class status, but also with the reopening of Campo do Tarrafal. He wanted to found universities in Angola and Mozambique and prepare a middle class in the former colonies that would guarantee the smooth functioning of the independence countries. “My Adriano Moreira was, in those difficult years in the 60s, the statesman who had a vision of reform and progress for the overseas issue. If Salazar is quite likely that his plan, Portugal has already ended the imperial cycle peacefullyas revolutionary independence prepared, we would not have war, we would not suffer the revolutionary process nor would we have fallen into the so-called ‘exemplary decolonization’”, believes Portas.
Frustrated with their plans, it was in the academy that the place of recovery in the activity was always located, but of advancement in knowledge. He is “one of the pioneers in the introduction of Political Science into university-level studies in our country. Teaching capacity – more professors who teach the official language of an official language teacher are obliged to influence Portuguese universities and even their students”, emphasizes Mota Amaral.
University saints that Silva, also a place in politics, stands out 3 “fundamental facets” in Adriano Moreira’s academic activity. “The first is related to the study of the Portuguese State from a historical and long-term perspective. Adriano Moreira seeks to identify what he understands to be Portugal’s permanent interests, consolidated throughout national times. From this historical point of view of historical changes that insists above all on the historical historical points and that have been defining these permanents of the Nation and the Portuguese State, they insist on the President of Parliament, in a strategic interest at the request of Expresso.
“The second has to do with studies on security and defense in which Adriano Moreira has been not only a crucial thinker in the Portuguese context, but also a master of successive generations of military personnel and other security professionals, understood in its broadest sense” , continued Santos Silva. And the “third facet is related to political thought, and there Adriano Moreira has sought from the Christian-Democratic matrix and the conservative matrix to consolidate a center-democratic political thought based on Portugal inspired by the social doctrine of the Church”.
Also Doors of dedication to the social doctrine of the Church. “It has many causes and two in particular: the social doctrine of the Church and as institutions as a source of balance for Nations”, says the former leader of the CDS, a party that Adriano Moreira led for years, the party of the 80s, when the party was reduced to 4 deputies. Now that the CDS was left without any deputy, Adriano Moreira insisted on sending a message to the last Congress, appealing for resistance.
“The CDS was the Portuguese responsible for the Church’s social doctrine. On this date, with the worsening of the crisis in the community, what the Pope does is to report the importance and respect for humanity, goals that our party has assumed internationally. That is why the country cannot do without him. Always believe, they did not give up,” he wrote in July.
He, a centenarian, does not give up and has continued to share his wisdom. “Even now, his taste for public reflection and thinking leads him to keep his teaching activity active, through conferences and newspaper articles, which are not mere proofs of life and of full mastery of his faculties initially, but true lessons of wisdom from those who lived the acquired experience a lot and generously”, thanked Mota Amaral.
And the President of the Assembly of the Republic, with the authority of someone on the political spectrum, has no doubts about Adriano Moreira’s contributor to Portugal: “His contribution in the academic aspects he chose to distinguish has absolutely essential for the advancement of studies in Portugal on the State, on security and defense and on political thought in the plurality of currents and opinions that is undoubtedly a factor of enrichment of these studies.”
- Text: Expresso, POSTAL’s partner newspaper