The President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa with US President Donald Trump.
“In other times, I would shock immensely.” It is the new leaders, more emotional and direct contact with citizens. The President of the Republic also said what the PSD has to do to lock the radical right.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stated that his US counterpart, Donald Trump, currently works as a “Soviet asset”by favoring the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine.
The President of the Republic participated this Wednesday at the Summer University of the PSD, a initiative for training young paintings that takes place until Sunday in Castelo de Vide (Portalegre), on the site, when an intervention was scheduled for video conferencing.
In a panel entitled “The President’s Answers,” the head of state made an initial intervention in which he addressed the international situation, pointing to Donald Trump as the example of a new style of political leaders, more emotional And who bet on direct contact with citizens, without mediation, in a world where the balance of powers has also changed.
Criticizing “the minimization of all that is the separation of powers” and “if necessary, threatening to intervene in the life of a private company, in a court or in a federal reserve”, Marcelo argues that the current Trump “in other times would shock immense”.
“With a peculiar and complex thing: it is that the maximum leader of the biggest superpower in the world, objectively, it is a Soviet active, or Russian. It works as active, ”he said.
The President of the Republic stressed that it is not “an alliance based on friendship, economic, ideological or doctrinal complicity.”
“I am saying that, in objective terms, the new American leadership has strategically favored the Russian Federation“He said, referring to the performance of the United States President in the Ukraine War.
“That is, they passed allies on one side to referees of the challenge, ”he said, adding that he is a referee who just wants to negotiate with one team, excluding both Ukraine and Europe, who had to“ foist ”on recent conversations.
“The Time of the Radicals” is difficult for PSD and PS
The head of state first defended, in the same panel, that the role of the PSD in combating extremisms should be to “affirm the difference of moderation”, such as the PS, warning that it will always be easier to find consensus to the center, admitting that the ones social democrats have “a difficult task” in the center-rightequating this challenge to the PS in the center left.
Still, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa pointed out a way: “If I can’t-I think it is able to achieve, just like the PS-to affirm the difference from the moderation that distinguishes the most radical right center, which solves the problems of the Portuguese, so the function of parties of this nature is very difficult and this is not good news for democracy,” he said.
“It is not that there is no space in democracy for all formations and all political positions. Now, it is evident that it is easier to make regime agreements, make consensus, find solutions to the center, if a center-right party is a right-wing center-right party that is a radical right,” he said.
“This is not the time of the moderates with which democracies were traditionally the center-right center. This is the time of radicals With which democracies are otherwise, but we are all discovering how they are going to do, with what institutions and in what way, ”he warned.
