Manuel João Vieira wants to fight clowns, “where not even oxen can graze”

Manuel João Vieira believes that his election as President of the Republic would be a “clearance of the eyes of national politics”, which has “got confused” and does not have “men with the same caliber as there used to be”.

In your favor in the race to Belém, Manuel João Vieira he claims to have political inexperience: “I think it would be even better if he were President of the Republic, because seeing things with the new eyes of someone who has never even been part of a party youth, I think it could be a cleanser for national politics”, he added.

For the presidential candidate, “politics has become completely confused and has become more absurd”there are “really shadowy figures behind the political movements”.

“Everything that was rational, what was implicit in the UN agreements, in what was a Rule of Law, became a ‘there is no right’”, he stated, alluding to the international situation and the “advent of Saint Donald Trump”.

With a campaign characterized by irony and humorthe 63-year-old musician admits trying to use “a different language, a language that goes beyond other languages ​​in a metaphorical, allegorical and, sometimes, even in a direct sense”, to try to convey a message that Portugal is not “a country of poor people, condemned to always doing the same thing”.

“We are on a road and that road is, at the moment, being broken in terms of international law, it is being broken in terms of health, it is being broken in the social contract, and What we have is a deep marsh, where not even oxen can graze”, he warned.

Thus, “in this Ferrari of politics and the Vieira candidacy”, the musician wants to “go back a little, take in the good things that Portugal” has and had even better things in the past and “go down that ramp and get to the other side”.

“We want to get to the other side, we want to overcome this and we want to overcome this with science and technology, but also with the love of what it means to be Portuguese and what is typically Portuguese”, he assumed.

Putting the right to happiness in the Constitution

Remembering that what is symbolic and metaphorical is “very strong”, the candidate reiterated his intention to put into the Constitution the right of the Portuguese to happinessbut also to the landscape, “which is something that is also being destroyed at the moment”, and also to offer a “professional mother”, also promising to “review the contract that does not exist with nightlife professionals and who should be unionized and within a public framework, including in terms of health support”.

“What happens here in Portuguese politics is always more of the same, in fact. These are people who […] they have very small differences in terms of social action. Even so, small differences must be valued, of course. But it’s always been the same thing since April 25th. And, in fact, we don’t have men with the caliber that we used to have”, he highlighted.