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The CDS-PP has no doubts that the opening already announced by António Costa so that the PCP can organize the Festa do Avante in September will be a “privilege” Awarded to “A political party” to make a “Music festival” when such events were banned by the Government.
The big divergence is precisely how the CDS and the Prime Minister classify the Festa do Avante. While Costa agrees with the PCP and says that the annual meeting of the communist official newspaper is an example of “political activity”, the centrists limit themselves to classifying it as a simple “music festival”. Therefore, the first of the questions sent to the Executive leader is precisely to find out if “the Government, despite the ban on festivals contained in the bill approved by the Council of Ministers on May 7, which is expected to be approved by the Assembly of the Republic, intends to authorize the exceptional title the official party of the PCP: Avante?
Costa admits Festa do Avante, but with rules. “It does not occur to us to prohibit political activity”
It is also around here, due to the privileged situation that the PCP can be granted vis-à-vis other political parties, but also vis-à-vis companies that also organize music festivals, that Telmo Correia concentrates its remaining questions:
- The CDS parliamentary leader wants to know if the Prime Minister “does not consider that the Government is creating rules for the benefit of a specific political party (…)”;
- And if it will be “under the terms of some technical criteria of the General Directorate of Health” that “will end … in fact, this privilege is allowed to a specific political party.”
In the preamble to its request, Telmo Correia insisted that in the “celebrations of May 1, the Government allowed events and circulation outside the municipality of residence to certain people and union centers, when this was generally prohibited from citizens”, recalling the controversial meeting promoted by CGTP in Alameda D. Afonso Henriques, in Lisbon.
The decision is made, only the law is missing: there will be no festivals this summer in Portugal
Questions about Avante! It emerged after the government announced that it wants to ban all summer festivals in late September. This measure, known on May 7, has not yet been approved by the Assembly of the Republic. However, the PCP general secretary, Jerónimo de Sousa, already reacted in an interview to the Porto Canal and rejected that the Festa do Avante! Being considered a festival, he said the party does not have a “closed position” in its performance, stating that “the Portuguese Communists are very creative.”
Jerónimo says that Festa do Avante! it is not a festival and that the communists “are very creative”
