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Carlos César, president of the PS and the parliamentary group, believes that the issue raised by the President of the Republic on the possible need for the state to intervene in the media, facing the "deep crisis" of the sector "is a reflection to lead your way."
In the statement of Carlos César, sent to the PUBLIC in writing, the Socialist also remembers that "in this state budget, support has already been approved, ie proposed by the PS, with this concern". The party chairman refers to the proposal to lower VAT on digital publications to 6%.
On Tuesday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa launched the discussion: "The big question I asked myself is: to what extent does the state have no obligation to do so? to intervene? ", he asked during the ceremony of Gazeta Awards 2017, in Lisbon.
The President of the Republic asked if "a form of intervention at the parliamentary level would not be possible and would correspond to a regime agreement".
"I do not want to end my presidential term with the feeling of having coincided with a dramatic period of profound crisis of social communication in Portugal." He added: "I do not really know what are the signs, so of the freedom in Portugal and therefore of the democracy in Portugal".
With regard to possible state intervention, "even if it is to help financially and economically to find decisions or measures to minimize this type of crisis", the President The Republic stated that the matter initially raised reservations.
"It's the risk – we have the memory, the oldest – of when we intervene, we get our hands and we are tempted to abuse it," he said.
Marcelo also raised the possibility of "a form of transversal intervention" or "small measures", such as "postage, for example", highlighting the impact on the press regional and local. "It was not a scandalous intervention, however," he said.
Marcelo also launched as an intervention hypothesis "to study what is done abroad" in relation to the "large multinational platforms" that use the content of Portuguese social communication, " even knowing that it is a very unequal struggle, is done inside and should be paid. "
For the President of the Republic, there is a "media emergency situation in Portugal" which "is becoming more serious year by year", on the radio, in the press, on television, and which "creates already democratic problems, problems of diet".
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