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From politics to music, passing through literature, 54 personalities signed an open letter on the “drift” and “fusion of European and American politics” that have marked the last few years. “It is necessary to make it very clear that democratic rights do not have common ground with antiliberalisms,” they wrote, rejecting associations in this political sphere with “forces of the authoritarian right.
The manifesto comes a few days after the Chega party signed an agreement allowing parliamentary support for the PSD in the regional government of the Azores. There is no direct reference in the text to this agreement, but there is a sentence that leaves no great doubt as to why it will have led to its publication at this time: “The space of the center-right and the Portuguese right is not that of extremism, be it that conviction or opportunist extremism ”.
At the European and world level, this merger, the subscribers defend in the letter published by Público, “makes its way between forces of the authoritarian right and conservative, liberal, moderate and reformist parties.” And “these tendencies demand a position,” they wrote, adding that “liberal democracy needs consistent and feasible solutions, not demagogic, inflammatory and revanchist speeches.”
Among the 54 subscribers are Henrique Raposo, personalities linked to the CDS such as Adolfo Mesquita Nunes and the deputy Ana Rita Bessa, Pedro Mexia, Miguel Esteves Cardoso and Samuel Úria. Everyone argues that “the acceptance of this ideological fusion for democratic rights is an affront to its history and the harbinger of a moral collapse.” And they add: “Trump is not Lincoln, T. Roosevelt or Reagan.”
“We do not question the legitimacy of the new right-wing movements, nor do we ignore the reasons for the discontent and exasperation of their supporters. But there is no answer adrift with the merger. It must be clear that democratic rights have no points in common with those of illiberalisms. It is this clarity that we defend “, reads the text.
