In the reactions to the speech of the President of the Republic and writer Lidia Jorge, the Leader of the arrival warned of what he says he is “a dangerous way” of saying that “the Portuguese are guilty for the clarifying in the world.” And to the current and future government left a warning.
From Lagos, in the Algarve, the president of the arrival warned, this SGENO, that his party will seek to overthrow in Parliament a government that proceed to the “revision” and “blame” of the history of Portugal and the return of goods to the old colonies.
André Ventura spoke to journalists at the end of the June 10th commemorative ceremony, when he commented on the content of the speeches given by the president of the celebrations, the writer Lidia Jorge, and the head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Although the issue of Portugal’s reparation to its old colonies was not addressed in any of these two speechesthe president of the arrival raised the theme after being confronted by journalists with the idea of a multicultural Portuguese people inherent in the interventions of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Lídia Jorge.
André Ventura began by marking journalists to hear from assistance words of support, praised the President of the Republic for addressing the issue of former Portuguese fighters, but regretted that he did not say “in excess of immigration”.
To follow, Without referring to Lídia Jorge, he warned that political power will enter “a dangerous way to say that the Portuguese are guilty of the clarifying in the world”.
“This week I saw Mozambique request the return of works of art, or the return of any Portuguese wealth. Without offense to anyone, I represent my country, which is Portugal. And Portugal will not return anything,” he said.
“If Portugal returned anything to an old province,” according to André Ventura, then they “had to return the millions that the Portuguese invested in roads, hospitals, schools, culture.”
“Mentalize this, we will not return anything to anyone. And the government that tries to review its history, blaming yourself, or to give back to old colonies whatever, from our part will fall in Parliament the next day, because we have to be proud in our history,” he said.
The president of the arrival assumed that Portugal “played his role in the world, had his role in creating empires, played his role in clarifying, had his role as other nations of the world had”.
“Another thing is to whip us, hit us with the whip on our backs and say we are responsible, we will compensate you, we will take the blame. No, Portugal assumes the blame except having a big story,” he said.
After the end of the ceremony, when all institutional representatives had abandoned the Avenida dos Discoveries in Lagos, the president of the arrival was greeting for about 20 minutes and commented that “people still support the arrival.”
“As for the President of the Republic, it seems to me that I wanted to give the old combatants a centrality, but I regret that there was no word for the excess of immigration that we are having“He bound.
“It has been said of multiculturality, Portuguese centrality, and politicians remain uniform to say that there is a problem with immigration in Portugal and that we have to fight it,” concluded the arrival leader.
