This Wednesday, the representative of Livre accused the right of wanting to reopen an already closed debate, citing the criminalization of abortion, believing that it would be interesting to talk about a referendum on regionalization.
In response to statements by CDS Vice-President Paulo Nuncio, who acknowledged the holding of a new referendum on abortion during a debate organized by Radio Renacens, Rui Tavares expressed his conviction that there is no request in Portuguese society to renew this referendum. discussions and that a balance point had been found on this issue.
The CDS is part of the Democratic Alliance (AD) along with the PSD and PPM for the March 10 legislative elections.
Meanwhile, CDS-PP president Nuno Melo stressed that a new referendum on abortion in Portugal is not included in the Democratic Alliance coalition agreement, rejecting that it is “a topic for the next legislature.”
“The right is throwing us back into the past and wants to reopen a debate that has already been closed. I would be very interested to hear about a referendum on regionalization,” said the leader of Livre, who is campaigning this Wednesday at the University of Tras os Montes and Alto -Douro in Vila Real.
The AD does not include regionalization in its election program for this legislature, and on Tuesday the PSD president accused the PS of “launching” regionalization without a concrete project requiring skills and funding.
According to Rui Tavares, “the right doesn’t like to talk about the future, they like to talk about the past.”
“Our role is every day to destroy the appeal to the past, fear, division, to ask our fellow citizens, deep down, what we want for our country,” he emphasized.
Rui Tavares said that in the 50 years since April 25, the country has achieved many achievements, such as the creation of the National Health Service (SNS) and even the fact that it was one of the first countries in the world to include environmental issues. in the Constitution.
“We should be proud of him [país] and in our democracy. We have achieved a lot over these 50 years, the rest still needs to be done so that young people can return, get out of this trap of low wages. The right has no proposals on these things, and therefore they will look for false topics and pseudo-topics,” he emphasized.
Also, the head of the Livra list for the Lisbon Circle in the legislative elections of March 10 returned to the issue of immigration, which entered the election campaign after the speech of former PSD President Pedro Passos Coelho on Monday.
“When we have the right to talk about immigration, it’s because they don’t want to talk about their economic proposals. They don’t want to talk about jobs and that’s why they talk about immigrants,” he stressed.
He added that “young people know for sure that it was not an immigrant who cut off their grandmother’s pension during the Troika era, it was not an immigrant who told them that they needed to emigrate, it was not an immigrant who told them that teachers should leave their comfort zone and that we had too many teachers, it was right 15 years ago.”
“When you bring the issue of immigration into public debate and link immigration to insecurity, you actually create more instability,” said Rui Tavares.
More than 10.8 million Portuguese are called to vote on March 10 to elect 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
18 political forces, 15 parties and three coalitions are competing in these elections.