“I will not contribute further to this cause. The activists have already made their point, stopped in Ibiza, Tunisia, reached Israel, and were sent home two days later. They have done their pamphleteering. They solved nothing from a humanitarian perspective,” stated Nuno Melo during a visit to the fortnightly fair in Ponte de Lima.
The four Portuguese who were part of the Global Sumud humanitarian flotilla, including the BE leader, Mariana Mortágua, and who were detained by Israeli forces, landed around 10:30 PM on Sunday at Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon.
The CDS-PP leader believes Portuguese activists should focus “a little on the local elections,” which he described as “extremely important for the Portuguese people, not for the other side of the Mediterranean.”
“It is right here in Portugal. Therefore, I am focused on the local elections, on what matters to the people. Securing mandates and putting the CDS-PP at the service of the Portuguese people. That is what we are doing every day. We should not contribute further to the Left Bloc’s pamphleteering campaigns. Many do that, but I won’t do it anymore,” Nuno Melo declared, accompanied by Vasco Ferraz, the CDS-PP candidate for the Ponte de Lima municipality in the Viana do Castelo district.
