Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas stressed this Thursday the importance of November 25 as “a passage to a free Portugal”, adding: “I would not like to be in a country where some dates have been forgotten”.
“Very important to celebrate the dates, the dates that marked our history”the mayor of Lisbon told Lusa in Brasilia, after the signing of a twinning agreement between the Portuguese and Brazilian capitals.
The mayor of Lisbon emphasized this on November 25, 1975 “This is the ticket to a free, democratic Portugal”.
“And that’s why we’re going to celebrate this date”he declared, adding that this celebration must of course be seen “because it is an important date like any other”.
Moreover, he emphasized that this date is also a way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of April 25.
“We celebrate the 50th anniversary of April 25 and that date is the date we also celebrate”.
The mayor of the Portuguese capital, elected by the Novos Tempos coalition (PSD/CDS-PP/MPT/PPM/Aliança), also stated “I would not like to be in a country where some dates are forgotten, there is no reason for that, there is no reason for friction”.
“I will speak on November 25, now we are far away. We are in the city council”he concluded.
On Tuesday, Lisbon’s city council announced that it will “commemorate and mark” November 25, 1975 with several initiatives in the city, despite the condemnation vote approved by the city council in October.
The program on November 25 will begin at 11 a.m., with the laying of a wreath in honor of military lieutenant José Coimbra and furriel Joaquim Pires, at Calçada da Ajuda, and at 12:15 p.m. the commemoration ceremony of the 48th will take place. anniversary of November 25, in the main hall of Paços do Concelho.
The conference “Democracy and Freedom: Fulfilling April in November”, at 3 p.m., will take Álvaro Beleza, President of Sedes – Association for Economic and Social Development, and political analyst José Miguel Júdice, to Palácio Galveias, Campo Pequeno.
The exhibition “25N – The Story They Didn’t Tell You”, by Instituto +Liberdade, will be on display at Praça do Município between November 24 and December 17.
The initiative comes after the municipal council on October 11 approved a condemnation vote for the announcement of the November 25 celebrations by the chairman of the municipality, at the proposal of the PCP, because it “constituted an attempt to reduce the dimension and meaning of the revolution of April”.
The vote was approved with votes in favor from PS, BE, PCP, Citizens for Lisbon and Free and against votes from PSD and CDS-PP.
Source: DN
