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United Kingdom President’s New Year speech highlights “the many forgotten Portuguese”
Portugal’s President gave his New Year’s speech and made it clear that, although things look good economically, the tragedies of last summer’s fires left a gap in the government’s ability to respond to its people’s needs.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa warned the Government that the tragedies and failures in tackling the fires can not be repeated and demanded of the António Costa government to look at “the many forgotten Portuguese” who live in the interior of the country.
Marcelo said the first six months of 2017 had been marked by good economic results but after the second half, the Portuguese people need reaffirmation that their security is being taken seriously even though there is government stability, sounded financial management, growing employment and rising income levels.”