On the day when the debate and vote on the 2023 state budget ends, the parties on the right celebrate November 25, the date that marks the end of the Ongoing Revolutionary Period (PREC) and the stabilization of Portuguese democracy.
IL is once again celebrating the date in a big way with the “Festa da Liberdade”, which will take place tomorrow in Porto and is counting on the participation of the Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, with the constitution being one of the topics under discussion.
It is in the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, in Porto, that this initiative will take place during Saturday, which aims to counter “the ideological option not to celebrate November 25 in public”.
The first panel will feature the intervention of the still president of the IL, João Cotrim Figueiredo, and the activist Laura Harth, who will debate the “struggle for freedom every day, everywhere”.
At a time when parliament has opened a constitutional review process, the Liberals will debate “The role of the Constitution as a guarantor of rights, freedoms and guarantees,” a panel in which constitutionalist Teresa Violante and IL Executive Committee member Joao Caetano Dias .
“November 25 Always!” will be the debate in which the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, the deputy and former president of IL, Carlos Guimarães Pinto and the president of the Academic Federation of Porto, Ana Cabilhas, will participate.
Nuno Barata, IL’s deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Azores, will be the speaker of the fourth and final debate of the “Festa da Liberdade”, a panel in which he takes stock of his two years in office under the motto “A liberal deputy in the Azores makes the difference”.
When the debates are over, the program of this initiative also includes dinner and socializing at Casa dos Arcos.
But even today there are two more parties that call the date with memorial dinners. The CDS in Amadora and with the participation of the center leader Nuno Melo and Chega in Frielas and also with the presence of the party chairman, André Ventura.
There is also a debate in the Neo-Realist Museum in Lisbon, in which the two historians Fernando Rosas and Pacheco Pereira participate.
controversies
Meanwhile, Socialist deputy Sérgio Sousa Pinto defended on Tuesday that the November 25 controversies had arisen during the “thing” to “provoke” the PS, criticizing his party for not adopting disagreements with the PCP on the matter.
“The controversies of November 25 make no sense and have been artificially created for reasons of political opportunism,” said Sérgio Sousa Pinto at a conference. “PS has always considered itself to be a kind of owner of November 25,” Sérgio Sousa Pinto defended that the controversy around that date was “resurrected” by the right during the period of the “device” “for reasons of redneck cleverness” and divisions between the socialists and their left partners.
DN/Lusa
Source: DN
