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Bruno Falci, Lisbon, special for free journalists
"The world needs imagination and who knows how to imagine is the left, because the right can not imagine anything." The world is already like the right either.We must seize the moment.I have a lot of optimism for the future.I have no doubt that this current project can not work.It is a project very ungenerous.It incites intolerance, leads to more social and economic inequalities.It is a project without future.It is an easy speech project in a moment of time.
Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
Words of Fernando Haddad at the end of the debate on "Democracy and the loss of rights in Brazil" in front of a large audience gathering the audience of the House of the Alentejo in Lisbon, on Tuesday 22, during a demonstration organized by the Center of the Workers' Party of Lisbon with the support of the Fo Saramago Foundation, the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, the Union of Great Lisboa (SPGL) and the Colectivo Andorinha – Frente Democrática Brasileira de Lisboa. Tarso Genro was also present and briefly presented the Brazilian political situation.
Tarso Genro Photo: Luiz Benevides
Several Portuguese political leaders, intellectuals, teachers and students attended the event, covered by several important communication vehicles from Portugal. Activists from several Portuguese badociations were also present. On the occasion, after the speeches of the two speakers, the representatives of the three political parties that currently govern the country, in a historic alliance of the Portuguese left, supported the fight for the resumption of democracy in Brazil: Isabel Moreira, of the Socialist Party Antonio Costa), Rita Rato, of the Portuguese Communist Party and Joana Mortágua, of the Left Bloc
Ms Isabel Moreira (Socialist Party) Photo: Luiz Benevides
19659009] Ms Rita Rato (Portuguese Communist Party ) Photo: Luiz Benevides
Fernando Haddad performs a series of international trips to discuss issues related to threats to democracy in Brazil and in other countries, given the growth of the far right in the world. . In this context, he traveled to the United States and Uruguay. During his trip to Europe, Haddad was accompanied by Tarso Genro and they were together in Spain. Both arrived in Portugal on Monday (21). The SPGL, a symbol of the revolution of April 25, 1974, presented to Haddad a harpsichord that overthrew the dictatorship of the New State, which lasted 41 years, and reclaimed democracy in Portugal. The widow of Guadalupe Magalhães Portelinha, widow of Alípio de Freitas, also presented a biographical work dedicated to the prominent Portuguese socialist activist and one of the founders of the Peasant leagues in Brazil in the 1960s
At the beginning of his exhibition, the president of PT said: "I have the clear impression that we have won the elections, so it must be to win the next. from the head of an election, but we are still optimistic about the challenges that lie ahead, that are not small, are great. "Haddad added that he would like to share with everyone what's going on in Brazil and clarified the reasons for his travels. "I was in the United States with the Socialist Democrats led by Bernie Sanders.At that time there were the Varoufakis (one of the leaders of the Greek party Syrisa), as well as the idea We also had the staff of the Frente Amplio de Uruguay, I visited the Mujica to talk about the current situation and I was also with the compañeros, with the socialists who govern the country. Spain and here (Portugal), to learn from successful experiences in the world – remembering that the PT had also offered its experience to the world and had inspired many of these experiences that are now in power – and to exchange information and impressions on the contemporary political reality "
Foto: Ricardo Stuckert
Haddad, the difficult historical achievements of the working clbad, women and blacks, who began at the end of the eighteenth century and this are pursued in the nineteenth century (which historian Eric Hobsbawm has defined as the age of revolutions) are the fruit of fiery struggles and innumerable defeats and that nothing came of grace in the field of democracy. He recalled the struggle for civil rights and the struggle for political rights. "In some countries, women had the right to vote only after the Second World War. Black Americans could not register to vote, even though the abolition took place in a civil war a hundred years ago. These were all days of struggle, of widening rights. Social rights are newly known. There was no idea of a universal system of public health, a system of public education, a social security system, social protection, any kind of the labor legislation. "
Haddad mentioned the most recent presence of the environmental agenda", which is not a rights-related trip, but generational rights, which must preserve the planet for the future generations, are rights for those who are not yet with us. "In Brazil, for the leader of the PT, none of this is preserved, because loses to the right and to its center-right part (social rights) is preserved, but when you lose to the far right , especially of this nature who badumed the presidency in Brazil, everything is under discussion.The secular school is in discussion, the self-organization of the popular movement is in danger because it can be treated or not as A terrorist During the process of the new democratization of the country after the military dictatorship, there was no doubt that the PSDB knew how to respect the leaders of social movements with differences from us, but at least in the speech, there was a respect for the rights enshrined in the Constitution. "
The leader of the PT stresses that it is not only social and social. environmental rights, but also civil and political ones threatened. "For example, the press naturally refers to the Minister of Education who says that the ENEM is the president of the Republic and that it can change the evidence produced by educators." Who is Bolsonaro for If you talk to interlocutors, people are perplexed about Brazil There is a gap between what is broadcast in Brazil and what is broadcast on the outside. from the Davos speech in the international press and in the local press.Instead, we are almost confronted with a six-minute speech by statesmen, but by statesmen In the international press, the frustration is huge in the face of what has been said Brazil has never been so bad before an international forum The president could not even say what he said. A contradictory speech We do not know which country project, the comings and goings It is dramatic and you will be able to hear the news tomorrow that nothing that has been said today is valid because there is also a guardianship over what is said by the army. So, you have a fundamentalist core of obscurantist government, you have a neoliberal core where you have a military tutelage. "Haddad commented on the recent accusations against the Bolsonaro clan and their involvement in the militias." When you read the news about the Bolsonaro family, you see unexplained financial transactions, a patrimonial evolution that nobody understands. The links with the militias are becoming more explicit. The cabinets on the edge of the militia. "
Haddad concludes by bringing great hope to the complex future that presents itself in Brazil." We are in a dramatic moment, but it relies on the civil society that will organize it, which will not be pbadive in the face of what is happening. "What should the left, center-left and democratic left do? (…) The global left offered an alternative to the crisis of neoliberalism, namely the socialization of bank losses and the Public debt explosion of countries in general.It is now up to us to develop a project in dialogue with society, with the collective movements, with the popular movements and to submit it again because we n & # 39; We will not save the past, but we will have enough imagination to present a project for the future. "
Under the full coverage of the event. Video of Bruno Falci
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