Carneiro argues that “good antidote” for populism is stability

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José Luís Carneiro spoke tonight at the conference “Challenges of Contemporary Democracy” – which precedes the new General States of the PS that start on Saturday in Lisbon – and focused its intervention on the theme of democracy and the threats it faces.

In the front rows, names such as the former Secretary-General of PS Vítor Constantio, former presidential candidate Maria de Belém Roseira, former President of Parliament Augusto Santos Silva, former European Commissioner António Vitorino and former President of CIP, António Saraiva.

‘Consequent crises [financial, pandemic and war] have weakened states and have functioned as blocking factors in the ability of democracies to respond to people’s concrete problems’, he said.

According to the Secretary-General of the PS, 'the stability that responds to people is a good antidote to populism'.

'Political stability where it is accompanied by economic and social progress and not stability to move backwards, stability to move forward', he said.

In the analysis by Carneiro, those who have done everything and done 'to provoke instability' are the same who 'instrumentalize the discontent grants' resulting from the systemic crisis.

"And they are the same who seek in consecutive crises the best method to discredit democracies. We must never fall into that corner of the mermaid, of this constant agitation, of the crisis and chaos that, from chaos to chaos, weakens democracy and the state", he called.

For the Secretary-General of the PS, this is why democrats and humanists "have a duty to create a common space where democratic threats and risks can be diagnosed" and, at the same time, to "define priorities capable of mobilizing our common forces" in order to respond to citizens and thus strengthen 'trust in politics and democracy'.

“The PS is and wants to be a home where all democrats feel good”, he said.

The new General State of the PS, according to the leader of the PS, begins with what is “the most essential”, that is, “the values and principles” that is “common ground”.

"On the basis of which we will seek the answers to the right policies: cost of living, housing, health, education, culture, knowledge, economy and wages.