"O Partido
Comunista Português recebe um OK para evento com 16.500 pessoas", lê-se no
título da notícia publicada esta segunda-feira no The New York Times. A
notícia, assinada pela agência Associated Press, foi publicada no dia em que se
ficou a saber que a Direção-Geral de Saúde permitira ao PCP organizar a sua
típica festa anual com uma lotação máxima de 16.500 pessoas, metade das que o
partido tinha anunciado.
A notícia refere
na entrada que esta autorização tem um número "anormalmente alto para
ajuntamentos na Europa durante a pandemia de coronavírus". A notícia surge
em dezenas de jornais mundiais, incluindo o protal noticioso da Microsoft.
A notícia dá
ainda conta da contestação que muitos setores da sociedade têm feito por as
autoridades terem cortado o número de pessoas que podiam assistir a eventos
públicos, mas por permitirem a presença de tantas pessoas na festa comunista.
O The New York
Times refere que o anúncio surge aquando "de o governo de centro-esquerda
Socialista está à procura de apoio político de outros partidos, incluindo os
comunistas, para o orçamento de 2021".
Portugal Communist Party Gets OK for 16,500
People at Event
By The
Associated Press
Aug. 31,
2020
LISBON, Portugal
— Health authorities in Portugal are allowing the country’s Communist Party to
let 16,500 people into its annual open-air festival next weekend -- an
unusually high number for a gathering in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The permit
has caused an outcry because officials have for months slashed the number of
people allowed into other public events, forcing many of them to cancel.
The
announcement came as the center-left Socialist government is seeking political
support from other parties, including the Communists, for its 2021 spending
plan.
The
festival, called Festa do Avante, features concerts and political speeches in a
fenced-off area of countryside south of Lisbon. In past years it has drawn some
100,000 people, of a wide variety of ages, over its three days.
The event
is a major source of income for the Communist Party, which has 10 seats in
Portugal’s 230-seat parliament.
The General
Directorate for Health announced Monday that 16,563 people can be inside the
festival at any one time, even though “there is a real risk that, during the
event, infected people with or without symptoms may be moving around.” The
Communist Party had wanted to sell 33,000 tickets per day this year.
Authorities
say people at the festival must remain at least two meters apart, unless they
share a household; concerts can take place only with distanced seating for the
audience; no alcohol can be sold after 8 p.m.; and everyone over age 10 must
wear a mask, among other measures.
Health
Minister Marta Temido that “the rules are well though-out.”
“We hope
the organizers are able to implement them and ensure people abide by them,” she
told a news conference.
The
calculation of how many people can be at the festival was based on criteria
used for how many can be on beaches, officials said.
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