What is really shamefully unacceptable is this lack of women, of half of the demos, that stands in second lines to the same old Napoleonic wrongdoers. No media light is thrown on to them. They are completely overshadowed!
We are all well aware of the tough reality of having to pay for the Portuguese economic crisis and that it is definitely going to be paid by us all. We inherited it from the successive failure governments since António Guterres, Ferro Rodrigues, Manuel Barroso, Santana Lopes, and finally, with José Sócrates. With governments of majority, of colligation, successively unjust, corrupt, spending public treasury in the most inadmissible ways.
Spending on expensive highway roads, excessive roundabouts with the most appalling bad taste sculptures, luxurious football stadiums abandoned and empty. And yes, subtle but not unnoticed "friends" employed in big companies earning massive and shameful salaries in a country which is now running naked for foreign funding.
It is a country of disbelief on its politicians, in politics and in the unnacredited State inefficiency.
Again we are going for elections. Too soon, rather late. And who do we have as potential candidates? The same menu. The same liars, thieves, corrupt, amoral and individuals with Napoleonic aspirations. Paulo Portas has well impersonated this character in the latter congress final address. A speech rather empty of real valid proposals for a potentially renewed Portugal. Not different from those who have also criticized the resigned Prime Minister.
I do not find problems in sacrificing even more than we already have. I am even for the idea that it is in the worse events of life that the human being is capable of the most amazing positive shifts, because one has to be creative and survive. I myself, am a child of a community and a family of diasporas which has gone through amazing crisis through successive migrations and has found success in life. No problems with one more of these.
The real problem is that I do not see myself represented in none of the potential candidates to Prime Ministers of this country in crisis. They have all already shown that they either are awful servers of the public interests, or that they belong to parties that are full of political vultures, or are mentors of obsolete and inadequate ideologies.
What is really shamefully unacceptable is this lack of women, of half of the demos, that stands in second lines to the same old Napoleonic wrongdoers. No media light is thrown on to them. They are completely overshadowed!
If I had as a potential candidate a moral and ethical woman such as Maria de Belém, who has proven her legitimate concern for people, especially those that are really the needy ones, or even if we could hear the voices of other women, from other political colors come forward, accompanied by the best economic and social consultants, our political scenario would certainly be of a different and more interesting kind.
I am sure we would be much more looking forward to the political debate, and to politics, and the will to vote would increase, shifting from political distrust to true democracy.
Women are socially and culturally prepared to have a wider vision of the world and of the needs of real people, and tend to serve society from different perspectives in more equal and fairer ways. Most truly because this is what they actually do in their daily routines while professionals and family leaders. Could we actually be able to make this change. I say: "YES WE CAN".
