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The President of the Republic defended, this Saturday, that in a difficult time for Portugal “to stop evoking the 25th of April at a time when, perhaps, it is being put to the test, it would be a civic absurdity”. In the closing speech of the solemn commemorative session of the 1974 Revolution, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that this would be “a bad sign, a very bad sign, of lack of unity in the essential”.
Recalling the difficult times lived in the country and in the world, Marcelo also considered that “what would be truly incomprehensible and civically shameful was that a whole country was living this time of sacrifice and surrender and the Assembly of the Republic resigning from all its powers , more than ever essential “.
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