Despite recalling that the PCP considered that “it would not be positive to coincide” the reception in the AR with a solemn session on April 25, Paulo Raimundo assured this Sunday that the Brazilian president will be “well received.”
The general secretary of the PCP, Paulo Raimundo, said this Sunday that the solemn session dedicated to the president of Brazil “does not detract” from the commemorative session of April 25 and pointed out that Lula da Silva will be “well received” in Portugal.
“It is normal for there to be a formal session with a State President. When we were asked this question, what we said was that it would not be a good idea to coincide with the formal session on April 25 and that it would be better to find another session for that purpose. That was the end result, and I’m glad it was. I think it is preferable and does not reduce the formal session dedicated to President Lula or the formal session dedicated to April 25,” said Paulo Raimundo.
The PCP general secretary, who was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a lunch commemorating the April Revolution, also stressed that Brazilian President Lula da Silva is “very welcome” and will be “well received” in Portugal.
Asked about the demonstrations called against the presence of Lula da Silva, Paulo Raimundo said that he was unaware, and only pointed out that they would only be possible “because it was April 25.”
The presence in parliament of the president of Brazil – who will visit Portugal between April 22 and 25 – has been shrouded in controversy since, in February, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, made an explicit statement in a speech Lula da Silva in the act of session of the April Revolution in the Assembly of the Republic, marking its unprecedented character, which deserved the opposition of the PSD, IL and Chega.
Parliament ended up deciding that, instead of an intervention by the President of Brazil at the solemn annual commemorative session, it would hold, on the same day, a separate welcoming session during Lula da Silva’s state visit to Portugal.
At a lunch that brought together hundreds of militants in Vila do Conde (Oporto district), the PCP general secretary defended the need to “open another perspective for the development of the country” and “break with a policy that sometimes invokes the pandemic “. , sometimes war, to deceive and disguise the true causes that are at the origin of the problems”.
Paulo Raimundo also criticized the “right-wing politics that questions” health, education, housing and basic necessities, as well as those who want to “rewrite history” and put “the Revolution behind its back.”
“No wonder they attack April and the Constitution. It is not surprising that they still have scores to settle with new revisions of the fundamental text of Portuguese democracy. No wonder they want to rewrite history. They rightly want to leave the Revolution behind and they want to convince us that it is a thing of the past, expired and buried, ”he said, saying that it was necessary“ to bury right-wing politics once and for all. and the “turn the record and play the same thing” policy.
Source: Observadora
