The president of the republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, this Thursday reiterated the message that power implies responsibility, saying that “it is an illusion to think that you can be important without paying a price”.
The head of state spoke at the Belém Palace, in Lisbon, in a speech drawing comparisons between sports, economics and politics, at a reception for the Portuguese wheelchair handball team, European and world champions.
“It is an illusion to think that you can be important without paying a price, that you can have power without having responsibility, there is no such thing. They don’t do it the same way to get where they got to”, declared Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The idea that power implies responsibility was central to the speech of the President of the Republic on May 4, in which he expressed his opposition to the retention of João Galamba as Minister of Infrastructure.
This Thursday, in front of the athletes and leaders of the wheelchair handball team, the President of the Republic believed that “the most difficult thing to form a team, to create a spirit of body, is to act as a team” and spoke about the “ups and downs” that exist, both in sports and in economics and politics, in which “the cycles are not the same”.
“This is happening in everything in the country. In the economy, we have big numbers in terms of certain fundamental things for the life of the Portuguese, and then we have problems that are not so big in the daily life of the Portuguese, because things are not be simultaneous,” he said, resuming an analysis he has made over the past few days on the national economic situation.
The President of the Republic added that “one cycle has to go up for the other to go up, and sometimes when the other one goes up the first one starts to go down”.
“The good numbers, big ones, went up, reach people, they’re with people for a while, the cycles coincide. Then suddenly people still feel a positive cycle, but something outside or inside is causing the overall cycle to not be as good “, he illustrated.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also said that those who are in sports, but also in economics, politics and society in general, are constantly subject to comparisons and confrontations with others, with competitions to be eliminated, “knockout “, victories and defeats.
“In sport, comparisons are made on a daily basis. If you will, in sport there are elections, I won’t say every day or every week, but with greater frequency than political elections, which is why all matches are knockout matches, almost all they, even what they were not, become – in Scolari’s expression – mata-mata. To win is one thing, to lose is another. To collect victories is one thing, to miss one ceases to be,” he said.
Source: DN
