Most of the main political protagonists of the country will go on vacation to Portugal, mainly to the Algarve, carrying in their luggage books by authors such as Barack Obama or Jose Saramagobut also some podcast about science or history.
According to the Belém Palace, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will have “a few days of vacation at the end of August“, in Portugal, still without a defined location.
The President of the Government, António Costa, according to a source from the executive’s office, was on vacation in the last week of July, and could possibly take a few more days at the end of August.
With the doors of the Assembly of the Republic closed until September 6, the president of parliament, Augusto Santos Silva, “will be on vacation the last two weeks of Augustwith his family, in the Algarve, as always” and for reading “he will take novels by authors such as Nélida Piñon, Javier Cercas or Fernando Aramburu”, said an official source.
The president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, will pass”a week of vacation in the Algarvewhich will end on the day of the traditional political ‘rentrée’ of the Social Democrats, the Festa do Pontal, on August 14.
Despite the rest, Montenegro is accompanied by some”work files“, but also the book “A Promised Land”, the memoirs of the former president of the United States of America Barack Obama.
The president of Chega, André Ventura, is the only party leader who will go abroad for his vacations, in the second half of August, choosing to read “The first manby Albert Camus.
The leader of the Liberal Initiative, João Cotrim Figueiredo, will remain “in here” for six days during the month of August, accompanied by authors such as João Tordo (“The night the summer ended“), Miguel Torga (“Vintage”), E. Fawcett (“Liberalism — The life of an idea”), Nietzsche (“Beyond good and evil”) or the memoirs of former PSD president Francisco Pinto Balsemão.
To the books, the IL president adds podcasts like “the rest is history“, by Rui Ramos and João Miguel Tavares on Radio Observador, or “Tubo de Ensaio”, by TSF, by Bruno Nogueira and João Quadros.
Jerónimo de Sousa, general secretary of the PCP, will be on vacation until the first weeks of August with his family in the south of the country, and he will take the book with him.”lifted off the groundof the Portuguese Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago, “whose centenary of his birth is commemorated this year, and where he draws a portrait of the history of the heroic struggle of the people and of the agricultural workers against secular exploitation and for their living conditions ”, highlighted the press office.
Catarina Martins, coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda, will be with her family in the central region in August, and in her suitcase she will carry “the world game” by Julio Cortázar, “some policemen and the “playlists“of the daughters”.
Inês Sousa Real, leader of People-Animals-Nature (PAN) has scheduled a vacation for the last fortnight of August on the Alentejo coast and in the Algarve, accompanied by the “book of hope“, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams, or “Dear Ijeawele” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among others.
“To relax”, the deputy likes to listen to the programs “Prova Oral” and “Aleixo Fm”, from Antena 3, the podcast “Fumaça” and “Do Gender”, from the newspaper Público.
Rui Tavares, sole deputy for Livre and historian, will spend his family vacations in his hometown, in Ribatejo. To read take “M, the son of the century“, by Antonio Scurati and to “reread” the book “Latin do Zero e Nova Grammática do Latin”, by Frederico Lourenço.
EITHER podcast vacations will be20 thousand leagues”, a podcast history of science by Sofia Nestrovski and Leda Khartoum.
Source: Observadora
