The blackout in the campaigns

We well know that each nation has the government it deserves, where politicians eventually give in to the temptation to assume themselves as the reflection of the society we are at one point. We also know the inevitability of reaching the same places if we go through the same ways.

However, nothing justifies the absence of major national topics in this election period, those who are structuring for the near future, so as to become Portugal in a competitive territorial space and prepared to fully face the serious international threats around.

No one wanted these elections, as has been understood, and the consequence will reside in the reinforcement of a parliamentary majority that inhibits a new trip to the polls. I do not doubt this unconscious will, present in the minds of the Portuguese, being legitimate and adequate. But since we are campaigning, it was worth taking the opportunity to analyze our weaknesses and deepen the most determining proposals. And that is all that is not happening.

Instead of debating state reform, the need to accelerate the economy, or to encourage Lusophony’s unique culture and heritage, the main parties opted for survival campaigns and not audacity, just looking to grow in the electorate of neighbors for their own flags.

In this scenario, the incidences could not be distinct from those that, unfortunately, occurred in recent weeks. Political exercise was based on speculation, hiding the lack of ideas in populist discourse, allowing and encouraging the judicialization of politics, dangerously mixing the powers born to be divided, impartial and independent.

Only in this way are unacceptable episodes in the 25 April celebrations, enthusiastic about this institutional impunity, perpetrated by individuals in Lamb, remembering how extremists rise to power by democratic means to finally misrepresent them. Nor do they bring with them any news and resort to historical methods so often seen. They infiltrate society and their groups, and then assault covered in their backs, trying to assume their predominance by strength, with very evident hatred in their faces.

This is not my country. In my democratic country, no one assaults on April 25, because freedom is not good. This is why we need those who make a difference for peace and stability when they exercise the positions for which they were elected.

The best response to tyranny is to create, grabbing words as the only weapons, and not consenting the globalization of indifference to the suffering of others. We need leadership with these characteristics, capable of overcoming our vulnerability well evidenced in the general blackout. May the emptiness of the campaigns not become permanent and remember one of the strong messages of those who recently left us. If fear can be contagious, courage is even more.