Estela Silva / Lusa
In the language of Camões “citizens”; in Goethe’s language “Bürger”. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will be present at Bürgerfest. André Ventura is outraged. He thinks it is a hamburgers festival.
The president of the arrival accused Marcelo of going to Germany, with the money of taxpayers, to go to a hamburgers festival, referring to the initiative “Citizens’ Festival”which, in fact, is a “Citizens’ Feast” in Berlin.
This accusation to the President of the Republic was made by André Ventura on social networks on Wednesday, after arriving in Parliament voted against the trip of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Germany, for an official visit, between Thursday and Saturday, at the invitation of his German counterpart.
“Parliament approved the head of state to Germany to go to a hamburgers festival. To the account of our taxes. Do you think this normal? Doesn’t the Portuguese revolt? ”Read in a message published by the president of arrival in social network X.
In a video posted on Instagram, in which he appears with a document in hand, André Ventura makes the same accusation, referring to the Bürgerfest meeting as “a hamburgers festival”, when it is in fact a citizens’ party, in the Portuguese translation, held at the presidential palace gardens in Berlin.
“The arrival voted against, as evident. This is a bandalheira. But do you know why this goes, do you know why things go through? Because you don’t know this. You don’t revolt at this because you don’t know, ”adds André Ventura.
As with social network X, also in the video published on Instagram the president of the arrival associates Marcelo’s travel to Germany, for an alleged hamburgers festival, to a loss to Portuguese taxpayers and comments: “Tell me how ridiculous it is, how stupid it is”.
But becoming the “spell against the wizard”, barely the video began to be widespread on social networks, It was André Ventura that fell into “ridicule”.
“Do you want to see the leader of getting a figure of imbecile?”exposes, in a video, the liberal Gonçalo Levy Cordeiroshowing Ventura to claim that “Bürgerfest” is a hamburgers festival.
While Ventura is outraged by Marcelo to go to Bürgerfest with taxpayer money; Levy Cordeiro states that “The expenses that really cost is to pay the salary for a dude to make a cotton as basic as this”.
In response to tweet, Rui Rochaformer liberal initiative leader, Temer says, “If the President of the Republic wants to go to Peru.
I fear the worst if the President of the Republic wants to go to Peru.
– Rui Rocha (@ruirochaliberal)
On the other hand, Carlos Guimarães Pinto wishes Marcelo to go to Cameroon.
As a mood appreciator, I hope the President of the Republic will not end his term without going to the shrimp
– Carlos Guimarães Pinto (@cgpliberal)
In a note published on Wednesday morning in site Officer of the Presidency of the Republic, before the vote in Parliament, which occurred in the afternoon, it is reported that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will be received by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and a framing of the Bürgerfest initiative is made.
It is a citizens’ party “that takes place annually in the gardens of the official residence of the federal president, to honor voluntary work and promote the civic involvement of citizens“, Refers to the note.
