This Thursday, at the opening of the conference “A Banca do Futuro”, the Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, quoted lines from David Mourao-Ferreira’s poem “Abandono”, dedicated to the fado singer Amalia Rodrigues. This was the first time Centeno spoke publicly since he said in a newspaper interview Financial Timeswho was invited to replace António Costa as prime minister.
“Because of your free-thinking/They went so far to shut you down/So much so that my complaints/Can’t reach you,” Centeno said, adding that “it was thanks to free-thinking” that Portuguese banking institutions were able to achieve their current financial performance. stability.
The poem “Abandono”, about the political prisoners imprisoned before 25 April 1974 at Fort Peniche, appears in Amalia’s 1962 album Busto. The fado singer’s LP was confiscated for several days PIDE, political police of the previous regime.
The Governor of the Bank of Portugal said that he remembered this poem when preparing the intervention related to the financial sector, which took place this Thursday under an initiative promoted by the Jornal de Negócios.
Mário Centeno believes that the country is going through a moment of reflection and that it is not only the Governor of the Bank of Portugal who is being asked to think about it.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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