President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa this Friday asked for new “inspiring leaders” in the face of “great changes” in the world, warning that repeating the formulas of the past can be useful many times over, but at others “it does not open the future.”
“I feel that what is happening in the world is a great geopolitical, economic, social, scientific and technological change, and that it is natural that the younger generation plays a big role in these changes,” Marcelo Rebelo de Souza told reporters after his speech. at the opening of the 8th Estoril Conference, which takes place at the Nova SBE campus in Carcavelos.
According to the President of the Republic, “new heroes are needed at all levels”, noting that “heroes appear only from new ideas and new leadership, from these changes.”
“This is inevitable. By the way, I said that I am speaking against myself, because I really feel that repeating the formulas of the past is often useful, in other cases it does not open the future,” he stressed.
Making it clear that he was talking specifically about the Portuguese reality, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa noted that “often at the international level, the solutions that arise are to a large extent the same”.
“There are certain leaders, some of them exist for decades, decades, decades, and then as an alternative for the future, the same leaders appear for another four years, five years,” he said.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stated that European political systems “are still very reluctant to these changes” and “this leads to the emergence of new forces, new movements that embody the idea of change.”
“If we see at a universal level the type of change in large countries, then in great powers it is very small, and this also happens in institutions of a different nature, and I feel that this will inevitably entail a price in the future,” he noted.
The appeal of the president of the republic is directed “to a change of ideas, but this requires inspiring leadership.”
“The world has changed, and there is only one answer to the key question: we need inspiring leaders, not just doers. Some of these figures may be inspiring, but most of them are no longer,” he said in his speech at the opening of the event, which was held in English.
Asked if this change should apply to his successor at the Belém Palace, Marcelo made it clear that his intervention “has nothing to do with the choices a, b, c, d”.
“It has to do with the greater or lesser role of youth in political systems, with the greater or lesser or still very low role of women in some issues, with the greater or lesser role of migrants, or almost without it.” Zero in political systems. There are certain hundreds of thousands of people or even more who exist, earn their living and do not matter to the system,” he lamented.
The head of state was also questioned in connection with the news spread by the Observer that Prime Minister António Costa spoke in the Council of State on July 21 about equating the search for parties with the search for lawyers and clarifying the funding law.
“The prime minister starts with a short speech, but the prime minister just spoke that day in parliament on the same topic, and then ends because he listens to various speeches, and if he wants to do it, he usually wants to, he interfere,” he said.
Refusing to talk about what happened in the Council of State, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa again mentioned that at this last meeting, the Prime Minister did not take the opportunity to comment on what he heard, “because more time had passed before his departure than planned.” “.
“[O Conselho de Estado] this is one of the cases in the last eight years when one can say, apart from one moment or another, that what happened there did not come out at all. And that’s good, I think it’s a good system, because she never left the president’s audience with the prime minister,” he answered the question of how he sees the fact that information about what is happening in the State Council is being disclosed.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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