The
Portuguese voted yesterday to elect a new Head of State. Marcelo Rebelo de
Sousa, a law professor and a TV personality – for many years he commented every
Sunday on politics and general affairs on a national news channel and became a
household name – was voted in as the next President.
For
part of the public opinion he is seen as a moderate right-winger. In fact, he
is an open-minded conservative, very liberal in many aspects. In other
societies, he would be labelled as a man of the centre-left. Actually, many of
those on the Portuguese right would be considered as pretty progressive by the
standards of several rightist parties in other countries of Europe. And, in the
US, Donald Trump would call them “dangerous leftists”…
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