The government will create a commission to celebrate November 25

CDS-PP President and Minister of National Defense Nuno Melo announced this Sunday that the government will create a commission to celebrate November 25, 1975.

“I have agreed with the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luis Montenegro, that within the Ministry of Defense and the Government we will create a commission to organize national celebrations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of November 25,” he said.

Nuno Melo made this statement during the closing speech of the 31st CDS-PP Congress, which ended this Sunday in Viseu with the elections of new national bodies.

The centrist leader wants the celebration to be “plural and fair, consisting of military personnel and civilians,” and believes it is a matter of fairness.

“In 2024, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary on April 25. In 2025, we must celebrate – and not forget – the 50th anniversary on November 25,” he said.

Recalling that the CDS-PP celebrates this date “every year” and for the party it is something “almost identical,” Nuno Melo emphasized that “November 25 was the military movement that saved democracy in Portugal.”

The CDS-PP President also quoted the former President of the Republic, Ramalho Inés, who argued that “November 25 was a continuation of April 25”, saying: “This is exactly what we thought in the CDS for 49 years.” back”.

In a speech that lasted about half an hour, the SDS-PP president took the opportunity to repeat to representatives of the SDP (coalition partner) and other parties what he had told the congressmen: “SDS is not a continuation of the PSD, just as the CDS does not intend to replace the PSD “because of its “uniqueness”.

The centrist leader also said that in parliament the party “will be completely loyal to the coalition, and also clear about the uniqueness that it adds to it.”

“The CPC-PP will accompany the structural reforms needed to place Portugal in a cycle of sustainable economic growth and at the forefront of the European Union, returning income to families and companies, promoting higher wages and strengthening the welfare state,” he said. .

Nuno Melo also said that the party will value “the role of the family, the value of merit and work, the intensification of social mobility and the indispensable role of the middle class.”

“CDS-PP will fight against corruption and for the reform of justice and government, respecting the security forces and regulating immigration,” he added, indicating that the party “will strive for agriculture and rural peace, for sustainability with realistic and achievable goals, education with requirements and opportunities, a social state that combines a social matrix with opportunities established in the social and private sectors, and also focuses on the problems of the aging of the Portuguese population,” he listed.

“This is what, with all loyalty, the SDS will do together with the PSD in the Portuguese government,” Melo assured.