O ainda presidente da Câmara Municipal de Marco de Canaveses, Ferreira Torres, depois de ter proclamado «Sou mais sério do que as pessoas que me julgaram» e «tenho mais poder do que aqueles juizes; tenho o voto do povo», veio ontem (sábado) apresentar, publicamente, desculpas aos magistrados que o julgaram, por declarações que fez contra eles. Segundo noticia a TSF Online, Ferreira Torres diz agora: «Tenho muita honra em ter sido julgado por este colectivo de juizes, pela correcção com que fui tratado e a que não estava habituado de outros julgamentos neste mesmo Tribunal».
27 junho 2004
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O Avelino, por este andar, ainda chega longe. Dá o dito por não dito, mostrando que só os burros não mudam. Nem de propósito, a CNN falava hoje de um outro português que já não é o que era. Ora leiam:
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- In his path from Maoist student activist to prime minister of a conservative government and supporter of the war in Iraq, Portugal's Jose Manuel Durao Barroso has grown a thick political skin.
In power, he has gained a reputation as resolute and unbending.
Since becoming leader of Portugal's coalition government in 2002, he has gambled his popularity by giving vocal support to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, despite broad opposition from the Portuguese people.
He risked more wrath from voters when he hosted a prewar meeting in Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores Islands with U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spain's then-leader Jose Maria Aznar, backers of America's Iraq policy.
And when an opinion poll last June showed that nearly 74 percent of those questioned said they wanted Portugal's contingent of 120 policemen withdrawn from Iraq, Durao Barroso said defiantly that they would stay.
"We must stand by our friends when they need us," he said, referring to the United States.
Though committed to European Union expansion and integration, Durao Barroso has steered closer to the United States than his predecessors.
In the split within Europe over the Iraq war, he stood up to France and Germany, insisting on a strong alliance between the European Union and the United States.
"It would be a mistake ... to try and be different so that we become rivals. Europe should be a partner for the United States, not a counterweight, and vice versa," Durao Barroso said.
His Social Democratic Party, though, paid the price of those risky policies in June's European Parliament election when it posted its worst-ever showing in a national ballot.
Though rattled, Durao Barroso prides himself on sticking by his decisions.
When his Social Democratic Party fell short of an overall majority in the 2002 election, he pushed aside opposition from some senior members of his own party to form a coalition with the more conservative Popular Party.
As prime minister, he has earned a reputation as a reformer in sticking with deeply unpopular austerity measures devised to slash the ballooning budget deficit, including cutting public service staff and pushing through changes to Portugal's outdated labor law, which leaned heavily in favor of workers' rights.
Portugal slumped to its worst recession in a decade last year, with the economy contracting 1.3 percent, causing some to question his judgment.
But he says his toughness is now paying off as -- with public finances being knocked back into shape -- the first signs of recovery are emerging.
Durao Barroso's resilience and determination were honed when he served as secretary of state for foreign affairs from 1987-92.
In that post, he spent 12 months grinding out a 1990 peace deal to end a bitter 15-year civil war in Angola, a former Portuguese colony in southwest Africa. He stood firm against sniping against him from both the Angolan government and the UNITA rebels.
More recently, his detractors have chided him for negotiating the repayment of an estimated $2 billion (€1.6 billion) which Angola, where millions barely survive on food aid, owes to Portugal.
Portugal desperately needs that cash, but the prime minister's hush-hush dealings with an African government widely regarded as corrupt were portrayed by his opponents as callous and self-seeking.
Like many of the current generation of Portuguese leaders, Durao Barroso began his political career by opposing Portugal's dictatorship, established by Antonio Salazar in the 1940s.
As a law student in the early 1970s, he was a leader of a small Maoist party, called the Communist Party of Portuguese Workers/Revolutionary Movement of the Portuguese Proletariat.
A military coup in 1974 brought democracy, and in 1980, Durao Barroso joined the right-of-center Social Democrats.
After a three-year stint as foreign minister ended with his party's defeat in a 1995 general election, Durao Barroso became a visiting professor at the Georgetown University in Washington.
He returned to Portugal and became party leader in 1999. Durao Barroso speaks fluent French, Spanish and English.
At a rally during the campaign for the last general election, his wife, Margarida, likened him to a fish called a grouper, a common dish in Portugal. The comparison caused much mirth in the media and among his opponents.
But she was quoting from a poem by celebrated Portuguese poet Alexandre O'Neill.
The poem depicts a creature that doggedly -- and successfully -- pursues its dream.
Copyright 2004 The Associated
Por analogia com situações semelhantes, Ferreira Torres está protegido pela lei: ganhou o estatuto de "malcriado arrependido". Espera-se que o seu advogado requeira este estatuto e a Associação dos Amigos do Marco apoia-lo-á na mudança de país, de nome e na necessária plástica para alterar o aspecto.
o avelino ferreira torres já apresentou as suas «sinceras desculpas» aos juízes do colectivo visado nas suas declarações. Ficámos a saber que há desculpas que não são «sinceras» (o Dr. Gil Moreira dos Santos a tratar antecipadamente da defesa?.).
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