Marques Mendes considers last weeks « a complete disaster »

Luís Marques Mendes said on Sunday in Braga that the last few weeks « were a complete disaster for democracy. » The presidential candidate considered that the political crisis was everyone's fault and « could and had been avoided. »

To journalists, on the sidelines of a national meeting on local and regional press, Marques Mendes called for the campaign for early legislatures to be based on causes and not cases, so as not to further aggravate the “divorce” between people and parties.

“This crisis, first, could and should have been avoided, I think it was much better for the country. This crisis does nothing well to democracy, it only helps, in my opinion, to aggravate divorce between people and parties, ”he said, quoted by Lusa agency.

Pointing out that there is “guilt for everyone” in the crisis that led to the fall of the government and the marking of early elections, Marques Mendes reiterated that the last weeks were a disaster.

“A disaster for politics, a disaster for parties, a disaster for governments, a disaster for oppositions, a disaster for democracy. If the parties do not realize this, then they are not realizing anything that is happening, ”he warned.

In your opinion, the only way not to worse the divorce between people and parties « is now there is a positive campaign », with debate of ideas and based on « causes rather than cases ».

“The appeal I make is to change their lives (…). If the campaign is founded on cases and houses, then they may be sure that abstention will increase and divorce between politicians and people will get worse, ”he says.