{"id":10255,"date":"2015-10-28T00:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2015-10-28T00:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T07:43:24","slug":"the-ultimate-threat-to-democracy-in-europe-is-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/10\/28\/the-ultimate-threat-to-democracy-in-europe-is-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Threat to Democracy in Europe is the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Anti-EU parties won an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament in recent elections.\u00a0 They will be barred<\/a> from forming a government by pro-European Union forces.<\/p>\n

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“For the first time since the creation of Europe’s monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from taking office on the grounds of national interest.<\/p>\n

“Anibal Cavaco Silva, Portugal\u2019s constitutional president, has refused to appoint a Left-wing coalition government even though it secured an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament and won a mandate to smash the austerity regime bequeathed by the EU-IMF Troika.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     The block was effected by the constitutional President, Anibal Cavaco Silva, who said that “the great majority of the Portuguese people did not vote for parties that want a return to the escudo or that advocate a traumatic showdown with Brussels”… despite the fact that that is what electorally happened.<\/p>\n

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     For some time, in non-monarchical parliamentary republics, the selected<\/em> “President” has been considered but a ceremonial post with powers that were not expected to be exercised.\u00a0 But Pro-EU\/anti-democratic forces are using these heads of state to increasingly thwart parliamentary democracy (Italy is yet another example of this).<\/p>\n

     Agree with the anti-EU parties, who in this case are far Left, or not, but dispensing with democracy when you disagree with while standing behind it when you do, is hypocritical at best.\u00a0 A check upon a temporary parliamentary majority is good and sober, but it ceases to be when it is exercised on behalf of foreign powers hell-bent on gobbling up any and all sovereignty of Portugal, and all other members\/dependencies of the European Union.\u00a0 But this time, Portugal will not enjoy the status of a wide-spread empire as under Estado Novo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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