Portugal: democratically elected government Denied

[StLucieBengal]

http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/are-european-socialists-waking-up-to-the-fact-theyve-created-a-monster/

Because their policies challenge the European Union....

This is an interesting story how smaller groups are now working together to get out of the EU. I know most do not like the European topics but I think this is interesting and we are seeing it Pop up across Europe . Here is the communists, Libs... In France it's the right wingers.

Quote:Remarkable events in Portugal, no? A democratically elected government is denied the opportunity to govern because its policies challenge the European Union. The left wing coalition won more than fifty per cent of the vote; out of the single currency, an end to austerity, bollocks to the Lisbon Treaty etc. But Anibal Cavaco Silva, the constitutional president, has banned them from taking office because it’s ‘too risky’.

As Ambrose Evans-Pritchard puts it in The Daily Telegraph: ‘Europe’s socialists face a dilemma. They are at last waking up to the unpleasant truth that monetary union is an authoritarian Right-wing enterprise that has slipped its democratic leash, yet if they act on this insight in any way they risk being prevented from taking power. Brussels really has created a monster’. I wonder if they are ‘at last waking up’. And I wonder how many Labour MPs will look at Portugal and conclude that we would be much better out of this fundamentally undemocratic and arrogant bureaucracy?

More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11946412/Defiant-Portugal-shatters-the-eurozones-political-complacency.html

[JustWinBaby]

Finally running out of other people's money, and pissed off they can't just print more

[Bengalzona]

The financial crisis and aftermath might turn out to be a very good thing for Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain as well as the EU. Some of these countries have gone for a long time with unchecked governmental corruption and unrealistic financial policies. And there was no one to tell them to fix it. Until now. The people in the rest of Europe have a right to question why their tax money is being used to support some dude's early Royal retirement in Greece. And they have a right to have policies instituted which will prevent these types of situations from happening again.

As for the EU, it is a matter of "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."

[StLucieBengal]

These countries need to get on their own currency. The problem is if they start leaving Germany will suffer big time. Since they are propping up the EU financially.

[fredtoast]

(10-25-2015, 03:28 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/are-european-socialists-waking-up-to-the-fact-theyve-created-a-monster/

Because their policies challenge the European Union....    

This is an interesting story how smaller groups are now working together to get out of the EU.  I know most do not like the European topics but I think this is interesting and we are seeing it Pop up across Europe .  Here is the communists, Libs...   In France it's the right wingers.  


More here:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11946412/Defiant-Portugal-shatters-the-eurozones-political-complacency.html

More silly propaganda that ignores the facts.

The Socialist Party has the most seats of the left wing coalition that now makes up the majority, and the Socialist Party is very much in favor of remaining in the EU.

Also the President is allowed to take this measure, and it has happened in the past under their system of government, the legislature still holds all the power.  If the majority votes as a block then they can block all of his legislation and eventually force him to appoint a different Prime Minister.