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The Christmas celebration of the President of the Republic has been reduced. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, announced that he would divide the celebration into four separate meals, with different members of his family. The decision was the target of criticism and Marcelo will no longer eat either on the day or on Christmas Eve. The celebrations are reduced to a dinner, this Tuesday, December 23.
After seeing some epidemiologists uncomfortable with their plans for Christmas, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa explained that that’s why he changed his decision. “Christmas will be reduced tonight to a meal,” said the President of the Republic, during his visit to the Constitutional Court this Tuesday morning, to deliver the necessary signatures for his re-election.
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Initially, Marcelo had announced that he would celebrate the season with four meals, on December 23, 24 and 26. “I have already reduced it to a meal at home with 5 people, it is the minimum of the minimum,” he told reporters.
At the door of the Constitutional Court, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced that he has no plans for December 24 and 25, neither as President of the Republic nor as a candidate. The agenda, as head of state, was concentrated on December 23, resuming some commitments, “few”, after Christmas.
Regarding the campaign, for which he gave a budget of 25 thousand euros, He plans to spend the next few weeks busy with the interview and discussion period.
“It should be a long period, because I want to have debates with candidates who are not on the program,” he said. Marcelo refused to respond to criticism from other candidates, promising to “run a positive campaign, not attack the candidates.”
The campaign, he argued, should serve to “talk about the country’s problems”, such as the pandemic or the economic crisis.
Marcelo’s plans began on the 23rd at a lunch with the Brazilian side of his family. “As there are little more than five, they are at two tables, no more than five at each table, spaced apart,” in a restaurant, he told TVI. Dinner would be in the company of brothers and sisters-in-law, with a total of five people.
The Christmas dinner would be dedicated “to another part of the family”, also five people. On the 25th, the president had not planned to eat together, and on the 26th it was also possible to join another group of family members for a joint meal.
Ricardo Mexia, epidemiologist and president of the National Association of Public Health Doctors, was one of those who criticized the election of the president, because there were too many contacts: “This is not the idea, this is not what we have recommended to the people ”.
Francisco George, president of the Portuguese Red Cross, considered the model a “happy solution” and admitted adopting a similar plan, “be with one day, be with others one day.”
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