Former PSD deputy Miguel Morgado contends that there has been a political shift within left-wing parties, who now perceive “social conflict in completely different terms,” opting to combat “identity inequalities” while “abandoning social inequalities.”
“I have no doubt. The populist Right claims that there is an oppressed people, but it’s not the people from minorities; it’s the people from the great majority who are being exploited and deceived by corrupt elites. The idea that the majority is exploited and the minority is the exploiter has shifted to the populist Right while the Left remains saddled with the defense of the oppressed, who in some cases, are even micro minorities,” said Miguel Morgado in an interview with SIC Notícias.
The former advisor to ex-Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho believes that “there is a complete shift of left-wing parties on these issues,” leading the “populist Right to emerge as the defender of the people.”
“Which people? A people that says they don’t have to be better educated, don’t have to lead us to a society where men and women think differently, more emancipated and progressive. You can be who and whatever you want, and we are here to defend you from threats looming over you: the elites of the rich, the media world, the immigrants,” added the former social-democratic deputy.
It should be noted that Portugal is set to hold early legislative elections on May 18, called by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on March 13, two days after the Parliament rejected a confidence motion in the government, which led to the resignation of the Democratic Alliance (AD), PSD/CDS government.
