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CDS/PP deputy, Paulo Núncio.
Paulo Núncio, shocked, announced a protest vote. Montenegro “deeply regrets” the broadcast of an episode with a “transgender” theme on the public channel.
The CDS-PP advanced a vote of protest over the broadcast, on RTP2, of a cartoon episode about gender identity, and the prime minister “deeply regretted that the program was broadcast under the terms in which it was”.
In his speech during the fortnightly debate with the prime minister, the parliamentary leader of the CDS-PP criticized the broadcast, on November 16, of the program “” on RTP2.
“What we ended up with”, commented Paulo Núncio, considering that it was “an absolutely regrettable program that shocked and outraged many Portuguese families”.
The CDS-PP deputy stated that this program, “clearly aimed at children, is pure propaganda of gender ideology”.
“Because instead of men and women, we should start talking about being fertile and being pregnant. Because gender varies to satisfy identity. And because boys can be girls and girls can be boys simply through the use of hormones”, he criticized, noting that “this is not” what families want their “young children to see and hear on Portuguese public television”.
Paulo Núncio announced that “the CDS will propose in this parliament a protest vote for the transmission of these programs on RTP” and wanted to know Luís Montenegro’s opinion on this matter, as prime minister and as a citizen, remembering that at a PSD congress, in 2024, “he had the courage to say that he wanted to free education from ideological and factional ties”.
In the answer, the head of Government indicated that he still subscribes “in full” to his intervention and this “has already become clear in the policy that the Government has been following in the area of education and, in particular, in the subject of citizenship”.
“Having no intervention in RTP’s programming, as a citizen, I deeply regret that the program was broadcast under the terms it was”, indicated Luís Montenegro.
The program’s just seven-minute episode, described on RTP Play as being “about physical changes and sexuality in pre-adolescence”, had already been the target of harsh criticism in the media, namely in opinion articles by Ângela Silva in and the former Gato Fedorento, José Diogo Quintela, in .
