Cascais City Council councilor Nuno Piteira Lopes came out on Tuesday to defend the Minister of Environment and Climate Action, Duarte Cordeiro, after he was attacked with green paint at the opening of the CNN Portugal Summit.
Nuno Piteira Lopes stated that politics occupies a very important place in the public sphere and that when holding government or leadership positions, one assumes a role of responsibility towards citizens and is subject to public judgment.
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“Being a politician is therefore an act of courage. An act that many do not accept, either because they are not amenable to this process or because they think that the compensation received does not justify such exposure,” the councilor wrote on Facebook. .
Nuno Piteira Lopes labeled Tuesday morning’s protest as “an attack on freedom and democracy.”
“It is in this cowardly and unjustifiable way that the best people in political life are leaving,” he concludes.
Duarte Cordeiro was being interviewed about “Goals and public policies for the energy transition” at the opening of the CNN Portugal Summit when an activist took the stage and threw green paint at the government official.
Commenting on what had just happened, Duarte Cordeiro stated that “intolerance does not even make other people more aware of our arguments, it does not serve to silence others, nor does it serve to intimidate those, like me, who hold public opinions to hold. functions.”
“Intolerance leads nowhere. We must reject intolerance and we must not be intimidated. This is the principled position that every member of the government must have,” said Duarte Cordeiro.
Source: DN
