Blame Santos Silva and Medina? “It seems to me a very petty political game”

BUTThe authorities’ different approaches to Portuguese and English fans in celebration of the sporting title and the Champions League final, respectively, were criticized by Francisco Luzan this Friday night in the usual comment space on the SIC antenna news.

“Obviously, the authorities treated Sporting fans very harshly and were very different from the English fans. In the first case, there was uncertainty about what might happen, and in the second, during the celebration in Porto, there was confidence about what might happen. happen, ”the former leader of the party attacked.

For a blocker, “It is unjustified that there are two criteria for the public’s presence at sporting events: in one case, at national competitions, and in the other, at international ones.”

Francisco Luzan drew yet another red card to the government, which ensured that British supporters would find themselves in a bubble. Now, in the eyes of a political observer, “The famous bubble defense system did not work. This obedience to the European football authorities was a great bitterness. ”

In managing this dossier, Francisco Luzan believes that the executive has lost “political credibility”, despite the fact that “after what happened, the British decision to remove Portugal from the list of green corridors seems completely independent of this issue.” Even because, as he justifies, “if there is pollution in Porto after the holidays, they have not yet been registered.”

The exclusion of Portugal from the list of safe destinations in the United Kingdom also raises “some observation” in the understanding of the blockers. The first concerns the legality of the decision, since “Britain has the sovereign right to impose restrictions on its borders, as does Portugal if it so desires.”

“Political advantage” after this decision was another topic that the former leader of the left bloc drew attention to, who believes that this strategy was “rather superficial.” Francisco Loousa refers more specifically to the fact that “the parties accused Santos Silva [ministro com a pasta dos Negócios Estrangeiros]”and asking him” for an explanation of the decisions of the British authorities. ”

Recall that the parliamentary group of the SDP today appealed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs with a request for an urgent hearing on the issue of excluding Portugal from the UK’s green travel list. The ruler, in turn, was ready to go to parliament.

Francisco Lusan also criticized “Lisbon SDP candidate” Carlos Moedas, who accused “Fernando Medina of increasing pollution. [por SARS-CoV-2] in Lisbon. All this seems to me to be a very petty political game. ”

He stressed that this British decision “reaches one of the main weaknesses of the Portuguese economy: tourism.” He added that Portugal “is overly dependent on tourism, and to think that our economic recovery can be guaranteed by this tourism bubble is to persist in the weaknesses of the Portuguese economy.”

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