Aristides Teixeira justified his candidacy with a need to wage what he says is the “destruction of the April Master Tolds”, adding that it is understand that it is up to the President of the Republic to demand from the government, for example, the reduction in 20% of the price of fuel and all consumer goods.
Aristides Teixeira, president of the 25 de Abril Bridge Association, announced, on Monday, his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic, motivated by the need to prevent the “destruction of the April Master Trades.”
Aristides Teixeira, 65, president of the 25 de Abril Ponte Users Association, former host and current RTP production board, presented his candidacy for the Alis Grand Hotel Porta, Lisbon, a location that said it was symbolic of removal from the political class from reality.
“Hotel Altis is the ‘former libris’ of the meetings to draw strategies from politicians. And outside the Hotel Altis there is a reality, which I know. And the reality is that getting around the hotel, will find an area Where they are stacked and ahead cardboards you will find homeless. This is the reality that you need to resolve.
Aristides Teixeira justified his candidacy with a Need to lock what it says is the “destruction of the April Master Treads”, adding that it understands that it is up to the President of the Republic to demand from the government, for example, the Reduction by 20% of the price of fuels and all consumer goodso End of tolls on the bridges April 25 and Vasco da Gama and a “Redesign of the public service “ to match the needs of taxpayers.
The candidate considers that this type of pressures about governments does not exceed the functions of a President of the Republic, as it is up to the head of state to interpret the wishes of the population and to “make pressure and demand measures that defend the interests of the country.”
“I’m a leftist candidate”
Aristides Teixeira, who was once an independent candidate for CDU, in the 1987 legislatures, and the CDS-PP, in the 2017 municipalities, explains that, despite the ideological differences between the political projects for which he has already competed, he positions himself, without “” A lot of ideological difference “with the coalition between the communists and the ecologists of” The Greens “.
“I am a leftist candidate, I am a person who hits democracy, I am a person who lived the dictatorship because I am the son of a political prisoner, a resistant anti -fascist, I lived with Mário Soares, with Álvaro Cunhal, I had This privilege, “he recalled to remember that the founder of the PS and former President of the Republic was his father’s lawyer, Cape Verdean Eleutério Teixeira.
The RTP employee performed alone this morning at Altis Grand Hotel, but assured that he has behind this desire to advance in the race to Bethlehem a “candidacy commission that will be presented briefly, consisting of activists from various areas” and will also announce a national agent, “public figure in the area of culture”.
Had already been presented as Candidate for presidential 1996 and 2011
Aristides Teixeira had already presented himself as a candidate for the 1996 and 2011 presidential, but never saw his name in the voting report in the race to Bethlehem, having even published a book entitled “Stories of Withdrawal (why I was not President of the Republic ) “, edited by the editorial Minerva.
Believes, however, that this time the application process goes to the end And expects voters to recognize their role in the “fight for the right of all people” to have a better life.
For this, it needs to gather at least 7,500 signatures, the minimum required by the electoral law to advance with an application.
Aristides Teixeira gained relevance in the political space as one of the main faces of the so-called 1994 “horns” against the increase in tolls, which, he told Lusa, contributed to the “fall of the Cavaco Silva regime” at the prime minister.
