In the post-Covid era, with the Praça do Município once again decked out for the ceremonies on October 5, Carlos Moedas made his debut in the strict protocol required by the short ceremony. With the GNR soldiers parading, waiting for the review by the President of the Republic, the host president accompanied Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Arsenal street, minutes before starting his speech where he pointed to the future and kept his eyes on the socialists. With no delays worth mentioning—and with the complacent silence of the professors marching alongside—nothing disturbed this year’s ceremonies with around 200 guests.
And if part of Moedas’s messages were about the opposition he has suffered in the government of the Lisbon municipality, the rest of the criticism was even directed at the absolute majority of António Costa -who listened attentively a few meters away, after having initially reported that it would be Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva who would represent him at the ceremony.
Carlos Moedas began his speech by recalling the 900-year history of Portugal, to say that the nation has always “refused to stagnate” and that the evolution it has had over time was only possible thanks “to the confrontation“. “We are a country that has evolved through confrontation. From the confrontation of the different visions of the country that the various political, social and economic forces have always had and have about our country,” said Moedas, who has lived and lives this confrontation very closely in the first year of his term as president. , from the right, from an autarchy where the majority of the councilors are from the left. And there began the analogies of Carlos Moedas for what lives in the municipality and, later, the message for António Costa (which would later be clearly reinforced by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa).
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Source: Observadora
