Marquis Mendes says that the past weeks have been a “complete disaster” The political crisis

Presidential candidate Luis Marquis Mandez On Sunday, in Braga said that the past weeks were “a complete disaster for democracy,” and considered that the political crisis was everyone’s mistake and “it could be avoided.” Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the national meeting on the local and regional press, Marquis Mendes called for a campaign of early legislative councils to the reasons and not issues, so as not to increase the exacerbation of “divorce” between people and the parties.

“This crisis, in the first place, could have been avoided, and I think it was much better for the country. This crisis does nothing good for democracy, just in my opinion, to exacerbate the divorce between people and parties,” he said. Noting that there is a “guilt for all” in the crisis that led to the fall of the government On the occasion of the early electionsMarquis Mendes has repeated that the past few weeks have been a disaster.

“A disaster for politics, a catastrophe for parties, a disaster for governments, a disaster for the opposition, a disaster for democracy. If the parties do not realize it, it does not realize anything happens.”

In his opinion, the only way to worsen the divorce between people and the parties is “there is now a positive campaign”, while discussing ideas and based on the reasons instead of cases.

He says: “The call I do is to change their lives (…). If the campaign was founded in cases and homes, they can make sure that refraining from voting will increase and divorce between politicians and people will get worse.”

In response to a question about whether the presidential candidates nominating the parties might benefit from the Portuguese resentment, Marquis Marx assumed that they had doubts, but they recalled that, for example, Mario Suares, George Sampaio and Marcelo Ribello de Sosa were all elected with the party’s support. ” “I don’t know if it will be useful (competing without support for the party),” he said. He stressed that the parties are part of democracy, that there is no democracy without parties and that the presidency of the republic is “the most political ever.” “What does that mean? Whoever competes for the presidency of the republic is a politicianIt ended up.

Also on Saturday, António Vitorino and Augusto Santos Silva pointed to two names, and they also pointed to potential candidates for Belém, They requested a useful campaign.