Mao Tse Tung, again rice. When the PSD also received complaints for a poster

“45 years eating rice,” said the PSD poster, accused of Xenophobia in 2021. “Mao Mao Maria” was an expression that did not fit well to some.

In what seems to be a manifestation of the well -known phenomenon of “whataboutism“A 2021 PSD poster circulates on the Internet, the height of local elections, which discovered it to be true.

But this poster is not just a vulgar political propaganda: it actually motivated formal complaints against the party.

At a time when Prime Minister Luís Montenegro imposed one against the arrival poster that puts him alongside José Sócrates, the 2021 billboard, posted in Seixal, exemplifies that PSD itself has also had problems with a poster For a badly received style of humor.

The campaign also contained posters with references to other communist leaders, such as Nicolás Maduro or Stalin.

“After 45 years eating rice,” read in this poster, “Are you going to vote for the same?” The phrase is accompanied by a photograph of Chinese communist leader Mao Tse Tung and the expression “Mao Mao Maria”. It refers to the CDU communist coalition, which ruled the Seixal for decades since 1976.

The Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination (CICDR) received two complaints accused the party of Xenophobia, And the list of the Seixal PSD, headed by Bruno Vasconcelos, had 10 days to explain.

At the time, as the, Bruno Vasconcelos reported only that It was in a “quiet conscience”, which would be explained to CICDR and that “these complaints were certainly made by people who deal very badly with the contradictory and opposition.” He also clarified that the word game with “rice” had to do with the Portuguese expression “again rice”.

“The association between image and text is clearly with the phrase ‘Mao, Mao, Maria.’ Any other association, especially a xenophobic, is the responsibility of those who want to interpret it, ”added Bruno Vasconcelos at the time, stating that the goal has always been“ to remember the Seixalense electorate of Some of the PCP referencesas well as the consequences of letting the communist ideology ava. ”