On Tuesday, the IL leader criticized “the long cycle of socialist decline that dooms the Portuguese to impoverishment or emigration,” saying “there is always an alternative in a democracy and the wind of change has already begun to blow in Portugal.” “.
“If today Portugal seems darker than we wanted, sadder than we deserved, narrower than we dreamed, it is because someone did not do enough,” criticized Rui Rocha in his first speech as president of IL at a solemn commemoration session of the 25th convocation. April in the Assembly of the Republic.
Answering “no to all attempts to restrict freedom”, Rui Rocha says “yes to the country”, given that “diagnoses are being made of a long cycle of socialist decay, which dooms the Portuguese to impoverishment or emigration.”
“There is always an alternative in a democracy and the winds of change have already begun to blow in Portugal,” he defended.
For the IL leader, “the alternative is indeed built in asserting decisions that oppose trust to fear, hope to conformity, demand for relief, superiority to mediocrity, urgency to action of negligence, economic growth of stagnation, a thirst for a future of atavism, the possibility of nepotism, and social determinism.”
Recalling that freedom was won “manually”, Rui Rocha repeated that “April 25 has no masters” and if they had, “the desire to return the country to all Portuguese would not be fulfilled”, so the liberals will parade on Avenida da Liberdade today .
The leader of the IS expressed on April 25 “the desire for freedom for peoples living under oppression”, citing China, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba or Venezuela as examples.
“Freedom to Ukraine, which has been suffering for 15 months now from the atrocities of war imposed by Moscow’s imperialist impulse. That is why President Lulu da Silva should not have been received that day in the Assembly of the Republic,” he criticized.
Rui Rocha’s speech ended with a challenge: “April 25 always, always freedom and always an alternative!”.