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IL accuses those who want to compensate third parties of attacking interests

The IL president considered today that whoever declares that it is Portugal's obligation to "compensate third parties" for the past is attempting "against the country's interests" and reducing themselves "to the function of spokesperson for imported sectarianism".

IL accuses those who want to compensate third parties of attacking interests
Notícias ao Minuto

13:07 - 25/04/24 por Lusa

Política 25 de Abril

"Those who state that it is our obligation to compensate third parties for our past are acting against the interests of the country, reducing themselves to the role of spokesperson for imported sectarianism and distancing themselves from the commitment to represent the overwhelming majority of the Portuguese people," declared Rui Rocha in the solemn session of April 25, in parliament, in an implicit reaction to the statements made by the President of the Republic on Tuesday, about the need to "pay the costs" of colonialism.

Rui Rocha considered that Portugal is not "less free" because it has "a long history of almost 900 years".

"And no, Mr President, History is not a debt. And History does not oblige penance," he defended.

In this speech, in which he stressed that, 50 years ago, a "seagull took flight", the president of IL considered that today there are those who want to "force the seagull to fly backwards".

"There are those who want, for example, to settle accounts with the women of our country for the freedom they have conquered. There are even those who want, under pious disguises, to persecute women again, decide their destiny, tell them what is and what is not their own," he criticized.

Quoting Natália Correia, a poet and former deputy of the PPD/PSD, Rui Rocha defended that "it is never the case that women fly too high, it is always the case that those who want them without freedom do not have wings to accompany them".

Next, Rui Rocha considered that "there was a time when you couldn't talk about anything", "then came that time when you could talk about everything", and now we live "in a moment when it seems that you can talk about everything, but you can't talk about anything".

"It is urgent to combat this denatured 'wokism' that infiltrates everything, that wants to chain the seagulls of expression and thought," he said.

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