The government said today that “no specific process or program of actions for the purpose” of reparation for Portugal’s colonial past has been or is underway and defended that it will be guided by “the same line” as previous executives.
“With regard to the issue of reparations to these states and their peoples for the Portuguese state’s colonial past, it is important to stress that the current government is following the same line as previous governments. There was and is no process or program of specific actions for this purpose,” the executive said in a statement issued by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
In the text, the PSD/CDS-PP executive stresses that “the Portuguese State, through its sovereign bodies – namely the President of the Republic and the Government – has had cooperation gestures and programs to recognize the historical truth with impartiality and impartiality”.
The President of the Republic argued today that Portugal should lead the process of taking on and repairing the consequences of the period of colonialism and suggested debt forgiveness, cooperation and financing as examples.
On the sidelines of the inauguration of the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom in Peniche, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was asked to clarify statements he made on Tuesday, during a dinner with foreign correspondents in Portugal, in which he said that Portugal should “take full responsibility” for what it did in the colonial period and “pay the costs”, which were criticized by Chega, IL and CDS-PP.
Asked to clarify his recent statements on the matter, the President of the Republic stressed that, throughout his presidency, he has argued that Portugal must “lead the process” in dialogue with these countries.
