Page XXIV of the Constitutional Government already displays the previous logo, which was changed by the last leader, António Costa, a commitment that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro made before the election campaign.
The change came immediately after the inauguration of the prime minister and 17 ministers of the new government formed by the PSD and SDS-PP, following the victory of the Democratic Alliance in the legislative elections on March 10 and an email from the party president. The Council of Ministers, reporting to its meeting on Wednesday, had already used the old image.
On December 2 last year, Luis Montenegro committed, if he were prime minister, to stop using the new institutional symbol of the Costa government, which caused controversy due to the simplification of the image, the removal of the armillary sphere, corners and locks.
“That makes all the difference: in our project we don’t force our historical references and references to identity to succumb to the idea of more sophistication, we don’t have that. Enough of the plastic policy,” Montenegro said at the time in the initiative of the National Strategic Council.
During the election campaign, former Prime Minister Durán Barroso also criticized the change in the government’s institutional symbol, saying that those who do not identify with the national coat of arms “are not truly Portuguese.”
At a rally in Santa Maria da Feira (Aveiro), Durau Barroso said he wanted to address a topic that he felt had not been given much attention by the media, namely the change in the institutional image of the government by the PS chief executive.
“They said that the logo, our old weapon, was not inclusive enough, that there were some people who did not identify with it. But if these Portuguese do not identify with our coat of arms, then for me it is not so. true Portuguese, we have no more meaningful symbols than these,” he said, thanking the PSD president for having already promised that if he becomes prime minister, he will stop using the new symbol.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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