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The President of the Republic said that he liked to be wrong when he was “less optimistic” about the holding of the Festa do Avante in the context of the covid-19 pandemic, referring that the problem of the PCP event 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 this Saturday, next to the hotel where the Portuguese football team was staying, In Porto. , before the match between Portugal and Croatia, of the Football Nations League.
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According to the President of the Republic, the problem of the celebration of the Festa do 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 one part of the Portuguese population is another ”, said the head of state, without saying if he is going to visit this year’s edition of the event, but remembering that he had been“ several times ”in previous years. .
The general secretary of the PCP, Jerónimo de Sousa, challenged the President of the Republic to visit the 44th Avante Festival and “see is believe”, instead of “lending a hand” to the PSD on the list of criticisms of the event due to the pandemic of COVID-19. 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.
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“They presented the entire contingency plan to me, I know it from front to back, from back to front,” the President of the Republic reinforced. On Friday, the President of the Republic confessed to being “less optimistic” than the DGS and the PCP about the event, adding that it was a problem of “political evaluation.”
