Francisco Pinto Balsemão at a rally of his PPD, in the hot spring of 1975. Founder and activist no. 1, he fought until the end for a party in the center, far from the “anthropophagous right”
Dear reader,
There are days when we have to write sad and writing about the death of Francisco Pinto Balsemão is writing about a void that is difficult to fill. A void in journalism, which marked like no one else and in which his farewell seals the end of an era. A void in the courageous and avant-garde spirit with which he launched “Expresso” against the dictatorship, opened television to the private sector and, after celebrating his 80th birthday, he launched a podcast about artificial intelligence and let his voice be cloned when reading the thousand pages of his “Memoirs”. And a void in the defense of social democracy that he refused to give up, remaining firm to the end in your convictionsdespite the lucidity with which he perceived the castle’s collapse.
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