The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said this Sunday that his comment about the cleavage of a young woman in Toronto’s Portuguese neighborhood was due to the cold and “was not sexist at all.”
“It was not a sexist comment, it didn’t come to my mind either from that girl or from the old ladies. It was not a sexist comment at all,” the head of state said in response to reporters in Toronto. during his official visit to Canada.
In a conversation with a young woman and her mother, Portuguese emigrants in Canada, in Montreal on Thursday, filmed by RTP, the President of the Republic commented: “My daughter still gets the flu, have you seen that, with her cleavage?”
Asked by reporters in Toronto today about the criticism his comment has caused in Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa looked surprised: “Don’t tell me. I don’t even know what to comment.”
The President of the Republic said that “at the end of the walk through the Portuguese part of Montreal it began to rain, it was cold,” and that he warned about this “several elderly ladies, one of whom he carried by the hand, and others younger.”
“I told a few people but apparently only the young woman was filmed: be careful because you still have a cold – that’s what I did,” he added.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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