Thousands marched down Avenida da Liberdade today celebrating 41 years of the Carnation Revolution, invoking values and rights won in 1974 and what many consider to be now in danger.
carnations on their lapels, raised loudly in the hands of protesters, or to sauces in the arms of florists who sold them 50 cents each who was part of the parade this afternoon down the Avenida da Liberdade, were painting red the human frame that filled the main artery of the city of Lisbon to mark 41 years of the 25th April.
The usual slogans such as “April 25 always, fascism never again!” joined Portugal flags and posters, warning of the danger of “falling asleep in democracy and agree to dictatorship” or calling for an end to corruption among the political class.
But mostly, people protesting the current political government and the loss of rights.
“I come because I feel angry at certain measures that are being taken. He was 17 when he was on 25 April. It’s been 41 years of revolution, but still, do not say worse, but almost equal to that we lived before the 25th of April. It is unfortunate that people today are back to what was before. The pensions that are increasingly cut off, no working conditions, is something unexplained, “he told Lusa Eva Martins, who was accompanied in the procession of his sister.
Adelino Jesus had just returned from Guinea-Bissau which saw the revolution that ended nearly five decades of dictatorship in Portugal, the day turned out to have “greater importance” for you, because with it “young people were free to go to the colonial war.”
“The April 25 for me is quite important since came away with the regime. Only weighs in fact the youth of this country does not get well in what was the April 25, in what was to give the opportunity to the Portuguese that they might have other opportunities. We do not have rulers that the people deserve. That is why we are on the street again, for the country to continue in a democracy and in favor of the disadvantaged, “he said.
Along with the parents, to see the procession pass, the small Baltasar, 11 years, which stands convinced a poster created and designed by itself, does not hesitate when asked what it means, after all, the April 25
“It’s the celebration of a revolution that happened, because fascism was destroying Portugal, “he said, adding that with the Carnation Revolution” has changed a lot, a lot of political “and would be” very bad “living without freedom.
Baltasar’s mother, Susana, German, was not in Lisbon in 1974, but has no doubt that the moment was celebrated today is very important to “defend the April values” because even think that we are not on track to a new dictatorship, does not believe that is the the right path. Not in Portugal or in Europe.
“I think that Europe, the European Union could be a caring community, but it is not. Are very restrictive rules, and especially the poorest countries suffer greatly from it, “he said.
At the end of the parade, threatened by the rain that fell as the starter, but it turned out almost without having to open the guard -Rain, there was still room to ‘Grândola, Vila Morena’, password Revolution by José Afonso, before Bargão major speech dos Santos, the Association April 25.
The platform mounted in Rossio square, where the turnout was far from the thousands who filled the Avenida da Liberdade, the April military’s words were also especially for the most vulnerable by the crisis.
“The fight against the current crisis requires active participation of women and serious men of Portugal. [...] We must be able to with a collective effort and properly organized to address corruption, financial scandals, the permanent destruction of the state apparatus and arbitrary privatization of the public sector, in full view, and the heads of interests national, “said Bargão dos Santos.
The military also said that we should not accept” the indignity “of” current forms of poverty and misery, “defend the rescue and promotion of” active citizenship ” “so we can intervene in decisions that concern us, defending the April values.”
IMA // PJA
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