The radicalization of Portugal

Communist presidential candidate, Edgar Silva 

The presidential candidate of the PCP, Edgar Silva, 

pointed out on Tuesday, day of the Restoration of the Republic, 

defending "national sovereignty and independence" 

from NATO and the European Union, 

and wielded the 'flags'of the communists of the renegotiation of the debt

 and amendments to the Euro.

"Today, as in rare other times in our history, 

Portugal has to defend its own interests. 

Starting with the one who occupies the highest office 

of the national sovereign institutions. 

Nothing can force the country to renounce the right to opt 

for its own socio-economic and political system by their own structures. 

Nothing can force Portugal to accept a position of a subordinated status 

within the European Union," said Edgar Silva, 

in a public statement, in Lisbon.

According to the member of the Central Committee of the Communists 

and former regional deputy of Madeira, 

"nothing can force Portugal to undergo military and strategic dictates 

subordinate to the interests of NATO, EU and the USA, 

oblivious to the national interest".

"The sovereignty and national independence 

require a national defense policy 

that breaks with the subordination strategy of USA interests, 

NATO and the draft militarization of the European Union", 

he said, proposing the "organization of the armed forces based on the balance 

between the three branches "the" rationalization of resources "

and better" operational capacity "

as well as positive changes in the" careers,

 payment system and rights "of the military.

Against "capital strike"

Against "European capitalist integration", 

the "attack of finance capital" and "the interests of big European powers," 

Edgar Silva advocates "breaking with external dependencies, 

reducing structural deficits and regain a sovereign development"

 through the "renegotiation debt in terms, interest and amounts ",

"intervention aimed at dismantling the economic and monetary union "

and" study and preparation for the release of the country's submission 

to the euro in order to recover central instruments of sovereign state. "

This is the thesis of ONE of the radical bed-fellows 

of António Costa´s new unelected government.

For the Nobel Prize for Economics Joseph Stiglitz, 

who was this Tuesday in Lisbon, 

defended A PROGRESSIVE INCREASE OF TAXES

and for Portuguese companies that do not invest in the country. 

MORE TAXES; MORE INSTABILITY; MORE RADICALISM.