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Members and supporters of the Portuguese Communist Party wave flags at a rally, the assembly “Festa do Avante” in Seixal, Portugal Tiago Petinga / EPA
Members and supporters of the Portuguese Communist Party wave flags at a rally, the assembly “Festa do Avante” in Seixal, Portugal Tiago Petinga / EPA
LISBON – Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Kendrick Lamar have canceled concerts at the Portuguese summer festival through COVID-19. The pandemic that the Champions League is playing this week in Lisbon in empty stadiums.
However, it appears that there will be a large crowd, despite Portugal’s struggle to contain the resurgence of coronavirus.
The Portuguese Communist Party expects another 33,000 people a day to flock to their Festa do Avante!, a birthday party based on red politics beer and rock and roll scheduled for 3 days in early September.
The health government is concerned, the right outraged, but the socialist government says it is powerless to ban the holidays. It is repugnant to galvanize a confrontation with the Communists, whose parliamentary help is very important to the minority administration.
For one of the last old-school communist parties to the applicable electorate, the party is a moment of strength at a time when supporters flee opposite left-wing rivals, downtown socialists and an outse cap.
The Communists insist that they will apply strict protection criteria at the festival on the river south of Lisbon and in its adjacent camp.
“La Festa do Avante! It is a primary political and cultural event, an opportunity to affirm the objectives and ideals of the CFP,” the party says on its website. “Don’t hold it, Array … I would be giving in to a reactionary offensive.”
The name of the party newspaper, the Festa do Avante! it has been a high-priced ticket to the Portuguese music scene since its launch in 1976, two years after a revolution overthrew 48 years of right-wing dictatorship.
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The program is no longer complete with acts of the USSR and “brothers” countries, but still presents some of the most important names of Portuguese music.
This year’s lineup of more than 40 artists includes experienced rockers Xutos-Pontapés, feminist rapper Capicua and fado diva Aldina Duarte. Fans and teams go beyond match lines: former centre-right leader Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, now the country’s president, a regular participant.
Regardless of their political affiliation, festival-goers pay a lot of cash to attend. Tickets for three days start at 26 euros and the party would have raised more than 2 million euros since last year’s occasion. This compares to the club’s 3.4 million euros in installments, according to official PCP REPORTS.
The government with the PCP’s argument that the political nature of the Festa do Avante! The exemption from the summer ban to music festivals imposed in May.
“Neither the letter nor the law allows us to ban political projects or activities,” Mariana Vieira da Silva, Minister of Administrative Modernization, said last Thursday. “Without the state of emergency, which we no longer have, political occasions are governed by the government.”
The Communists insist that they will apply strict criteria for protection at the festival across the river south of Lisbon and in its adjacent camp.
The PCP announced last Friday that it would restrict the number of participants to a third of last year’s high. Hours will be shortened, corridors will be established to allow spectators to move safely, sanitary situations in restaurants and bathrooms will be reduced, and masks will be made mandatory in most of the site, the party said.
Health is comparing plans, but experts have doubts.
“Large concentrations can potentially lead to times of super contagion,” Ricardo Mexia, president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians, told Radio Renascenca. “From my point of view, they should be avoided.”
After a few difficult months, Portugal has reduced its infection rate to an average of 189 new cases consistent with the day over the more than two weeks and has withstood recovery of the virus in the summer in much of Europe.
On the right, there is outrage that the Communist Party is ahead.
“The government has complicity with a party that supported it,” Telmo Correia, parliamentary leader of the conservative CDS-People’s Party, told the Lusa news firm last week. “Is there any Portuguese who doesn’t have to stick to the rules?”
PCP owner Jerome de Sousa said it is “insulting” to recommend that the party do so for money. “The Festa has added price and importance in the exceptional political context we are living,” he told his followers on Saturday. “Their good fortune will contribute to the struggle of our people in the face of concern and resignation.”
The communists want a boost. The party achieved its worst result in last October’s parliamentary elections, with 6.3%. It was overshadowed by the most modern Left Bloc as the ruling force of the radical left.
Recently, the Communists have also lost votes to Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s moderate Socialist Party and a new far-right party, Chega (“Enough”), which elected its first lawmaker last year.
The far right is dabbling in classic communist houses in the south, and recent polls show Chega is side by side with the PCP. Some commentators who insist on advancing the festival will strengthen the PCP’s RIGHT rival.
“The rest of the people on the street find that the communists think they are bigger than the others, not easy privileges denied to mere mortals,” he wrote Saturday in the P-blico newspaper. “This way, the PCP would possibly earn more money, but Chega will earn more votes. It’s a bad deal.”
However, while the call for mass demonstrations in times of pandemic alienates voters, the Portuguese right does not seem to have understood the message.
Chega’s boss, André Ventura, announced Saturday plans for the “greatest march ever seen” opposed to “anti-racist hypocrisy.” He promised to bring protesters “from all over Europe” next month to the southern city of Evora, a longtime communist stronghold.
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