PAN says that 49 years after April 25, Portugal “still remains a country with malnourished dreams.”

PAN’s sole MP, Inés de Souza Real, said on Tuesday that 49 years after the revolution that ended the dictatorship, Portugal “still remains a country with malnourished dreams” and “the freedoms that April craved.”

In her speech at a formal meeting on 25 April in the Assembly of the Republic, the PAN leader marked Natalia Correia’s centenary and used a poem she wrote to state that “after 49 years of democracy, Portugal is still a dream malnourished country.”

“The pandemic and war have pushed even more people into vulnerability and an unacceptable cost of living, and in which families still fail to break the cycle of poverty, to freeze in their own homes, in which we have not been able to achieve the goal of eradicating tents, or we still have there is no decent and public housing stock, we continue to have malnourished dreams,” he said.

“We are underfed for the freedoms that April craves,” says Inés de Souza Real, stressing that “the desire and will to change the paradigm is clear, and the democratic course that the majority of this parliamentary chamber intends to determine is also very clear. “.

The deputy asked the deputies to be “impatient in the revolution and in the freedoms that have yet to be realized.”

“If there’s a reason why we’re celebrating this dawn here and around the world, it’s this zeal, this impatient thirst for dreams and the power of change that made April a reality,” the PAN leader said.

Inés de Souza Real believed that Portugal was “obsessed with deficits, even if it involves suffocating families who do not invest in health care or other basic public services” and deplored that “pensioners and pensioners receive pensions in amounts that force them to choose between food or medicine.”

“In a country that easily gives millions in salaries and compensation for high positions, but where recent graduates have to pass all the tests and trials in order to receive a meager salary of a thousand euros, almost always without effective collateral or without being able to dream of owning a home, we continue to undernourish the dream,” he criticized.

The sole member of the PAN also stated that “the right to a childhood continues to be denied to children and young people suffering from physical or domestic violence”, there is “a huge number of cases of domestic and gender-based violence”, and the struggle continues “to eradicate multiple forms of discrimination.

When “hate continues to speak louder, even in this house of democracy, than tolerance and respect, and it is not presented as an alternative solution, we continue to undernourish the dream,” he said.

The sole deputy of the People-Animals-Natureza group also expressed regret that “even in the conditions of an inflationary crisis” “public money will always be found to finance bullfighting, even if it is necessary to resort to PRR if necessary”, but “there is no money for social support for families with pets and for the protection of animals”.

“On the eve of the 50th anniversary of April, what is lacking for a real social and ecological revolution is not the historical revisionism of model and management that we all know and which was overthrown by April, but quite the contrary. We need a development model that respects the well-being and happiness of all people and promotes the transition to the environment that the climate challenge requires,” defended the sole PAN member.

At the beginning of her speech, Inés de Souza Real expressed her solidarity with the speeches of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, who reprimanded Chega for protesting during the speech of the President of Brazil at the welcoming ceremony.

“We share the same embarrassment at the disrespect shown by some here towards our brotherly people, the Brazilian people, represented here by their president,” he said.