This Sunday we will have two weeks and election to the presidency of the Republic of Portugal and we can say that between us, its echo has gone just as quickly and indifference as if it had tried to Guinea-Conakry, Vanuatu and Belize. I was always intrigued and disgusted by this lack Catalan Portugal, a country with which we share many things in the past and present. United with Spain in the back, Atlantic and Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula, respectively, each other long ago should have made an alliance of interests, as we all benefit from a peninsula and not radial multipolar, with headquarters in Madrid. It's in the economy, transport, culture and politics. In fact, one can say that we owe a Portugal. Involved both in 1640 in a war against Castile, and proclaim they got rid independent, having the bulk of the enemy troops focused on Catalunya. We talked about it in a memorable dinner in front of the Tagus River in Lisbon, Mário Soares and Manuel Alegre. The latter, leftist candidate for president of Portugal and good knowledge of Catalan poetry, out-standing is a poet, novelist, vice president of Parliament and author of the preamble to the constitution of his country, where the first value to which it refers is the "national independence." From the time of his exile very active in Algeria, has always united approaches the left to the defense of national identity, without any complex.
Private initiative Catalan long since Portugal has considerable weight, while, on the other hand, political relations between institutions parties are, in fact, virtually non-existent and cultural differences are minimal. It is a pity that so and we can not benefit from flows of such positive relationships that would be in the cultural field, for our languages, and economic, thinking about everything on the market so interesting that form the Portuguese-speaking countries. And, of course, also in politics.
(article published in NacióDigital.com )
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