Most of the country’s main political protagonists will go on holiday to Portugal, mainly in the Algarve, with books by authors such as Barack Obama or José Saramago, but also some podcasts on science or history.
According to Palácio de Belém, the president of the republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will have “a few days of vacation” in Portugal by the end of August, still without a fixed location.
The prime minister, António Costa, was on vacation in the last week of July, according to an executive office source, and could last a few more days at the end of August.
With the doors of the Assembly of the Republic closed until September 6, the Speaker of the Parliament, Augusto Santos Silva, will be “on holiday the last two weeks of August, with his family, in the Algarve, as usual” and for the read “he takes novels by authors like Nélida Piñon, Javier Cercas or Fernando Aramburu,” according to an official source.
PSD president Luís Montenegro will spend “a week of vacation in the Algarve” ending on the day of the traditional rent Politics of the Social Democrats, the Festa do Pontal, on August 14.
Despite the rest, Montenegro is accompanied by some “work files”, but also the book “A Promised Land”, the memoirs of the former president of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
Chega’s president, André Ventura, is the only party leader to go abroad for his vacation in the second half of August, choosing to read Albert Camus’ “O Primeiro Homem.”
The leader of the Liberal Initiative, João Cotrim Figueiredo, will stay “here” for six days during the month of August, accompanied by authors such as João Tordo (“The Night When Summer Ended”), Miguel Torga (“Vintage”), and Fawcett (“Liberalism — The Life of an Idea”), Nietzsche (“Beyond Good and Evil”) or the memoirs of former PSD president Francisco Pinto Balsemão.
To the books, the president of IL adds podcasts such as “The rest is history”, by Rui Ramos and João Miguel Tavares on Observador radio, or “Tubo de Ensaio”, by TSF, by Bruno Nogueira and João Quadros.
Jerónimo de Sousa, Secretary General of the PCP, is on holiday with his family in the south of the country until the first weeks of August, taking with him the book “Levantado do Chão” by the Portuguese Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago, “whose centenary year of birth is being celebrated this year, and where it describes the history of the heroic struggle of the people and agricultural workers against secular exploitation and for their living conditions,” emphasized the press service.
Catarina Martins, coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda, will be with her family in the central region in August, and in her suitcase she will carry “O Jogo do Mundo” by Julio Cortázar, “a few police officers and the playlists of her daughters”.
Inês Sousa Real, leader of People-Animals-Nature (PAN) has planned a vacation for the last two weeks of August on the Alentejo coast and in the Algarve, accompanied by the “Book of Hope”, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams , or “Querida Ijeawele” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among others.
“To relax”, the delegate likes to listen to the programs “Prova Oral” and “Aleixo Fm”, from Antena 3, the journalistic podcast “Fumaça” and “Do Género”, from the newspaper Público.
Rui Tavares, the only deputy of Livre and historian, will spend his family holidays in his village of origin, in Ribatejo. To read, take “M, o Filho do Século”, by Antonio Scurati and “reread” the book “Latin do Zero e Nova Grammática do Latin”, by Frederico Lourenço.
The holiday podcast will be “20 thousand leagues”, a science history podcast by Sofia Nestrovski and Leda Khartoum.
Source: El heraldo
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