Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today makes his last speech as President of the Republic on April 25th.
The head of state, who will end his second and last presidential term in March of next year, will make his intervention before traveling to the Vatican, to the Pope’s funeral.
In his speech a year ago, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa evoked protagonists of Portuguese democracy in the last five decades, such as Eanes, Soares, Sá Carneiro, Cunhal, Freitas do Amaral and Cavaco Silva, and considered that nothing in the contemporary European historical compares to the Revolution of Cloves, by the changes it implied.
In the 50th anniversary of 25 April, he appealed to have “the humility and intelligence of always preferring democracy, even imperfect, to dictatorship.”
