Manuel João Vieira
Candidate for President of the Republic thinks that what is happening in politics in Portugal is uninteresting.
Manuel João Vieira is the “outside the box” candidate, in the long list of 11 candidates for President of the Republic.
The musician has already said, for example, that he wants to fight clowns, “where not even oxen can graze”.
In a campaign marked by irony and humor, and different language, this time the tone changed, in an interview with .
“What is happening is uninteresting in political terms. It’s not ambitious, it’s more of the same, it’s ‘let’s try to make another pact, maybe we can make a regime pact, something like that’”.
“It’s boring”, summarized Manuel Vieira, who defends the projection of utopiaslike the science fiction city, Vieirópolis, in central Portugal.
“We have to project utopias. Because, otherwise, they won’t come to us. Because, otherwise, what comes there are dystopias. And more and more.”
Therefore, he reinforces, it is necessary to “look higher”. Remember that, in 1957, “someone predicted that in the 70s or 80s it would be perfectly possible to stop having fome not world.”
Updating topics, slowing down global warming it would also be possible “if people were facing that way. Who are the people? Who’s in charge”.
Manuel João Vieira also spoke about the tension between , an “absurd situation”.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, ZAP //
