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1 The definition, minimalist, is found: any Portuguese concerned about the evident worsening of the phenomenon of corruption is a ‘populist’. Therefore, in the opinion of some of the most sagacious politicians of the installed system, there is no doubt: Ana Gomes’ candidacy for the presidency of the Republic is the product of left-wing populism – which, after all, seems to exist, symmetrical to the right.
At this time, in Portugal, anyone who thinks that fighting corruption and streamlining investigative and judicial processes should be a political priority, in order to stop the advance of economic crime, is a populist.
Paulo de Morais, also a former presidential candidate, who has just published “The Little Black Book on Corruption,” with many names and situations from A to Z, is another populist.
Rui Pinto, as Marques Mendes points out, with his professional training in the influential national law firms, is the only one, and without a doubt, a vulgar thief of private documents.
2 When Pacheco Pereira and António Lobo Xavier decree, in the ‘Circulatura do Quadrado’, in the embarrassing silence of Ana Catarina Mendes, second figure of the PS, that Ana Gomes is a representative candidate of the new national populism, the agreement is sealed.
The interesting thing is that this regime consensus is formed from the PS to the CDS, through the PSD, through the voice of prominent representatives of the field of party and business theology, of politics always carried out in the shadow of the State; people who, apparently, are never wrong, rarely doubt and have built over the years a varied and well-oiled traffic machine that has nothing to do with “gadgets.”
3 I think that some of these characters, not all, understand that courage is the ability to question that impulse that is not born in the party headquarters (pudera!), In the ministerial offices or in one of the emblematic headquarters of the Republic , with Parliament at the head. I attribute this, in a considerable percentage, to age. The People, who at age 20 stimulate their leaders, from age 60, in some cases, only annoyed those who had decided to take care of them. It was already like that in the monarchy. The kings called this ingratitude and the nobles, in the court that surrounded them, were outraged each louder than the other.
Here, as is easy to see, our ‘nobles’ run over into this outraged frenzy on so-called TV news.
4 Those who are not afraid of popular sentiment, as the left did not have it before, can only salute the advance of Ana Gomes. In fact, this candidate is not only giving comfort to many people from the PS, reluctant to vote in the candidacy that she will win, but she is also building the proper refuge for those who, wanting André Ventura well out of sight, do not even understand that the left offers a tray. on the extreme right, the exclusive discussion of important issues. The fight against corruption is the main one. Safety is one of the others.
It is also surprising that the left is not seen above all in the citizenship of Ana Gomes and prefers to ambush in the center, in the web of interests that democracy must always be the enemy but that today undeniably protects, at the same time that it crushes. the means given to investigation and justice. They are choices. The next few years will tell you if this was a good one.
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