Marcelo Rebelo de Souza January is the seventh year of his first election as President of the Republic and the number seven (nothing to do with CR7 or Qatar) is magic in the head of state’s mind. More than 20 years ago, when he was still leading the PSD, Marcelo began to theorize that a president should be a single term of no more than seven years. He said it abundantly in January 2014, in a conversation with Judith de Souza on TVI – “Ten years for a president is too much.” And although the context at the time was an analysis of Cavaco Silva’s presidency, which was drawing to a close through the streets of bitterness, the then-commentator’s conviction fits with the question at hand: What’s going on with Marcelo?
The color palette of the comments is flashy: one reads that the president has disparaged himself and his job, that he wasted gravity, that he speaks and doesn’t register, that fewer people take him seriously, that he runs on his words, that he said he didn’t say what he said but didn’t mean to say, He’s older and tired, that he looks like an artist, that he does what he shouldn’t and doesn’t do what he should, or that, as Jose Miguel Giudice likes to repeat, that by maintaining a love/hate relationship, Marcelo uses his enormous power (does he have it? ) “To help old ladies cross the street.” Opinion polls do not confirm the earthquake. On the contrary, there are pending studies on the effects of the president’s missteps on human rights in Qatar or violations in the church. The fall recorded by Eximage in October kept him as the most popular politician, above 60%. . But the number seven theory has survived and is supported by Marcelo himself.
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