The burden of instability

While certain national and international leaders persist in the mistake of thinking that we are still monocultural people, if such has ever existed, Portugal prepares for various determining electoral acts for their near future, in any cases for legal imposition and other in anticipation of calendars.

Given this last circumstance, as regards legislative elections, no one wants to stay with the scammer’s epithet and, given the inevitability of delaying the candidacies to PRR and the predictable loss of these reformist funds, all will try to remove this responsibility and the fearsome of instability from their shoulders.

One of the greatest challenges of the political class lies in reading about what a people want at a given moment and the perception of this context remains a determining to obtain better results from political parties.

This exercise of circumstantial predictions, which distinguishes the best, does not involve hidden sciences, but it is only possible for those who have a sage for it. Throughout the history of Portuguese democracy, we have several examples of these qualities, but in the present times, less and less achieve it.

Even so, there are some unquestionable certainties. People want and prefer stability, have a tendency to penalize those who consider it to be the disturbing of the institutional order and, in doubt, include themselves to those who have less contributed to the crisis. On the other hand, as long as the previous assumptions are verified, they end up benefiting who is in power.

Although several parties did not recognize him, the elections in the Madeira archipelago brought to light this lesson, where their voters ignored the judicial issues and chose to assign a majority to those who already ruled the region.

Without forgetting the obligation to defend the legitimate rights of immigrants, given the fragility arising from only 3.3% if they are registered, this low political participation is the main incentive for anti-immigration populists, it will be curious to follow the evolution of events, discovering through successive probes who are being punished by these early elections, who could not interpret the signs of the population and, above all, above all prepared for this moment.

The government government, through recent salary increases for certain professional classes and pensioners, with the most habitual voters in the largest and, tendentially, on the left, may have marked decisive points, but there is no guarantee that this is sufficient.

With multilateralism at risk and it is not possible to replicate the German scenario, by the impractical constitution of a central block as a stable solution to the rise of the far right, we have to aspire to an electoral result that brings a regular functioning of the institutions, giving Portugal the vision, firmness and dynamism necessary to respond to an unstable world and marked by economic wars from the other side of the Atlantic.