Another electoral act is approaching. These Legislative Elections are of the utmost importance.
We live in very complex times. Tough austerity measures were implemented. We have absolutely worrying levels of unemployment. People go through great difficulties.
The democratic regime is also going through very difficult times. We are part of a Europe whose values and frame of reference of the past have long since faded away. The distance and distrust of citizens towards parties and politicians in general are increasing.
Electoral events have very high abstention rates and elected officials see their legitimacy being called into question also due to this situation.
Discontent grows. The debate is not deep enough and matters are not dealt with with the transparency that would be desirable.
How voters will behave is the question that arises!
The specter of increased abstention is unsettling. It corrodes the democratic system. Some will say that it is the way voters find to demonstrate that they do not agree or agree with the state in which we live and with what has been going on.
As a citizen, I am very concerned that voters resign from exercising one of the most basic rights on which the rule of law is based. I don't see myself, at all, in the abstentionist position. There is always an alternative. And the manifestation of will takes place, in my opinion, in the ballot boxes.
The Coalition Portugal à Frente, formed by the two right-wing parties that have governed the country for the past four years, advocates that the implemented measures will allow, from now on, to start a process of growth. As a citizen and voter, I am concerned about the vagueness of this speech. Especially after having witnessed so many promises made four years ago, which, in addition to not being fulfilled, were even called into question, leading to the implementation of measures absolutely contrary to what had been proposed. In my opinion, many of these measures carried out lacked democratic legitimacy.
The Socialist Party calls for trust. Will the largest opposition party be able to capitalize on the electorate's discontent with the PSD and CDS? The distrust of voters towards this party in the arc of governance is also notorious. And the “black cloud” of abstention penalizes the left more than the right, whose electorate is usually more faithful.
And will the parties more to the left of the PS be able to increase their electoral scores? Will the PCP have the capacity to unite the dissatisfaction of the working class? Will the Left Bloc manage to recover the electorate, much due to the media intervention of its deputy Mariana Mortágua and the banners that she advocates?
How will voters react to the Free/Time to Advance candidacy, which initiated in Portugal a new way of choosing candidates and the composition of its electoral program?
What is the voting expressiveness of the other parties? Null votes, blank votes, will the trend continue to increase?
The election result is eagerly awaited. Analyzes will be carried out and it is very important to draw conclusions from this result.
Last note to realize that I am greatly concerned that it is not possible to understand, in a concrete way, the proposals that go to votes on the issues that, for me, as a citizen and voter, are unavoidable nowadays, namely, those that they concern job creation, the Public School, the maintenance of a quality National Health Service, the sustainability of Social Security, effective access to justice and so many others that define the type of society in which we live and want to live.
I reiterate the importance of voting in these elections! The choice of each of the deputies that make up our Assembly of the Republic is an act of citizenship.
I also leave a word of recognition to the deputies who exercised their mandate in the spirit of republican ethics, faithfully fulfilling the functions assigned to them. The others, those who did not, were not deputies of the nation.
Representing the people is one of the noblest missions carried out in Democracy. Let it not be tampered with.
To the deputies who are elected, I hope that they exercise their mandates on behalf of the citizens, for the citizens and with the citizens, expressing in each moment of their performance the desires of all of us to build a fairer, more equal and more fraternal society .
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