BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua this Friday expressed confidence that the Portuguese will vote “out of hope and conviction” and not out of fear of failure, saying that each Bloc deputy will have one less deputy elected by right-wing parties.
Mariana Mortagua chose to visit Eduardo Gageiro’s Factum exhibition to kick off the last day of the campaign in Lisbon, an exhibition dedicated to April 25, which was visited by the leader of the bloc, with the author of the photographs himself as a guide. and which she attended accompanied by former presidential candidate António Sampaio da Novoa and former BE MP Ana Drago.
“I have every confidence that on Sunday people will vote out of determination, in who they believe in, with conviction, for this country that they want to build. I have every confidence that people will vote on Sunday out of hope for Portugal. they want to, not out of fear,” he said.
According to the BE leader, “as the right demonstrated this campaign,” “the idea of regression was created, the idea of Portugal, where we don’t want to go back.”
“We fought so hard to get here, to build what we stand for today and what is the foundation of our democracy, and we want to move forward. This is my belief: after what happened in the last election, after what happened. Opinion polls overwhelmingly show that this Sunday people are voting according to their convictions, and the most incredible, most beautiful things in our democracy have happened when people have voted by conviction,” he said.
According to Mortagua, “if everyone decides for themselves,” on Sunday they can “change the country.”
“There are so many constituencies in this country where a vote for the Bloc is a guarantee that a left-wing MP will be elected, that so many constituencies are again represented by the left in parliament, and every left-wing MP is a guarantee that there is a majority for the left, that there is one less deputy elected by right-wing parties,” he said.
With a majority on the left, the bloc’s leader said it would be possible to “restore what the Portuguese love most and what gives them more security, namely: ‘health, dignity, wages, housing and schools.’
“The campaign made it clear that what the right has to offer the country is a failure. The campaign of the right was a parade of ghosts last Christmas, to which they have nothing to bring except the fear of failure, the fear of losing rights,” responded when asked about the entry into the AD campaign of former Prime Minister and former President of the Republic Cavaco Silva.
More than 10.8 million Portuguese are called to vote on Sunday to elect 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
18 political forces, 15 parties and three coalitions are participating in the elections.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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