mikke_and_i (OP) at 2024-03-11 23:38:07+00:00 ID: kug1ebw

Uncontrolled immigration, several years of promises by the former government that came to nothing, the incompetence of many politicians, many losses of money and so on. This is causing the extreme right to grow enormously (which makes me very sad because for 48 years Portugal lived under a military dictatorship and this year [25 April] marks 50 years since that dictatorship ended). Many older people are very apprehensive about the rise of the far right, but others don't seem to mind...

Now we run the risk of losing a lot of legal rights. In fact, they've barely won the elections and they already want to hold a referendum on abortion. The rights of women, LGBTQ+ people and so on are going to be jeopardised again, that's for sure. I don't know where things will end up.

But thanks for the praise for Portugal and the Portuguese ❤️