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There are few ideas in which free and left block do not converge. But when it comes to the defense and defense of the European Union, the story is different.
Mariana Mortágua and Rui Tavares They were face to face on Monday night in a pre-campaign debate for the May 18 legislative elections.
The leader of Livre again speaks on the “platform where several party fit”, appealing to consensus among leftist parties.
Tavares defended, for example, the Imposition of salary fans That determine a ratio between the lowest salary and the highest salary within a company to end “absolutely obscene differentials that create a caste apart for whom he truly even the sky is the limit”.
And the leader to Block manifested itself in favor Of these salary fans, also proposing that companies such as the textile sector, which come in bankruptcy, pass to the hands of workers through state support.
Discord in defense and defense
But between free and BE there are not only convergences. First of all, in the defense of the European Union (EU).
Tavares immediately wanted to demarcate Mortágua, as to the “European conviction”using positions of the founders of BE on the EU to distance themselves from that party.
Mariana Mortágua countered soon after, warning that Be “has always taken over as a left -wing European party.” However, he stressed that nonetheless criticizing positions of the European Commission.
“To enjoy Europe is to be able to criticize it When she plays against herself. This critical spirit is important, ”he argued.
In the answer, Tavares – which was an independent MEP elected by BE between 2009 and 2011, and abandoned the position in Disagreement with then leader Francisco Louça,-Remembered a sentence from one of the blockaders and current head of Leiria, Fernando Rosas, in 2016.
“When it was the referendum of ‘Brexit’ I remember listening to Fernando Rosas to say that You should not cry a tear for the end of the European Union. It’s a great historical difference, ”he shot.
Tavares continued, arguing that the free “never defended the departure of the euro” and that Francisco Loução, another blockader and head of the list in these elections for Braga, “wrote a book”, released in 2014, entitled Solution – New Shield. What to do the day after Portugal’s departure from the euro.
“Putin is not a flu”
In another point of the debate, and alluding to the war in Ukraine and the investment in defense, Mortágua pointed out that the BE rejects the investment weaponryremembering that the free is in favor.
“It does not seem to me that the left can accept that the economic project of Europe is the weaponry,” he said.
The BE Coordinator rejected that the EU “ENDIVIDE TO THE TOGETS” To invest in weaponry and considered it wrong “the idea that Putin comes in a mounted tank and will enter the Spanish border.”
Tavares, in turn, said that It’s wrong to think that “Putin is a fluas Bolsonaro said from Covid-19, ”he considered Europe to invest in defense.
Despite this position, the free leader stressed that the ecological transition and social investments cannot be put into question.
