Meetings organised by left-wingers Bloco de Esquerda – designed to ‘unite the left against the right’ – have been continuing, with Bloco coordinator Mariana Mortágua saying today that the left “is not willing to give up the path that Portugal has built in constitutional rights”.
Insisting that the new government is planning to eat into rights and liberties won through years of Socialism, the left is ostensibly joining forces to come up with a masterplan for the future. Said Mortágua:
“”In confrontation with the stability that the right-wing majority perpetuates in the country, we want to open a path of dialogue with the parties of the Left, which are in opposition, a path that translates into the desire to prevent temptations on the part of the Right to set back constitutional or fundamental rights that attack the Portuguese population and the rights of minorities, which show a future that we don’t want and that the majority of the population doesn’t accept.”
The stance appears to have been fuelled by the new government’s stance on controlled immigration.
