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The President of the Republic said this Saturday that he would be wrong if he were “less optimistic” about the holding of the Festa do Avante in the context of the 19 covid pandemic, saying that the problem is the perception of public opinion.
“I would like to hope that I myself had no reason to be less optimistic than those who are very optimistic.“, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in statements to journalists at the hotel where the Portuguese soccer team is staying, in Porto, before the match between Portugal and Croatia, of the League of Nations, which takes place in the Estádio do Dragão.
According to the President of the Republic, the problem of holding the party “Avante!”, Organized by the PCP, “is not a strict problem, [se] it is well organized or badly organized, it is the perception that public opinion has in relation to the event ”.
“DGS perception [Direção-Geral da Saúde] and the organizing party is one, the perception of part of the Portuguese population is another“said the head of state, without mentioning if he is going to visit this year’s edition of the event, but remembering that he has been” several times “in previous years.
The general secretary of the PCP, Jerónimo de Sousa, today challenged the President of the Republic to visit the 44th “Avante!” and “seeing is believing”, instead of “lending a hand” to the PSD in the list of criticisms of the event due to the covid-19 pandemic.
In response, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa highlighted the contact he had with the leaders of the organizing party, referring to the fact that the contingency plan was presented to him.
“They presented the whole contingency plan to me, I know it front to back, back to front”, Reinforced the President of the Republic.
On Friday, the President of the Republic confessed to being “less optimistic” than the DGS and the PCP regarding the fact, adding that it was a problem of “political evaluation.”
This year, the communist event, which began on Friday and ends on Sunday, in Seixal, Setúbal district, has been the subject of controversy due to the pandemic context of covid-19, with criticism from several right-wing political parties, among other personalities.
The health authorities even limited the maximum capacity of the venue to some 16,500 people simultaneously, between now and Sunday, and forced the audiences to sit in the shows, if they consume alcoholic beverages.
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