Pedro Nuno criticizes excessive media coverage given to “rioters” on the extreme right

“You divided the image between an event that brought together not half a hundred people and another with thousands and thousands” of citizens, the PS Secretary General told journalists.

The Secretary General of the Socialist Party (PS), Pedro Nuno Santos, defended, this Saturday, that the celebrations for the 51st anniversary of April 25, 1974 were “a beautiful day” in which thousands of Portuguese “took to the streets to celebrate freedom” and warned that “we should not take the extreme right so seriously”. “They divided the image between an event that brought together not half a hundred people and another that had thousands a…

The socialist leader did not like to see the scenes of violence that led the PSP to arrest two of the main Portuguese neofascist leaders to support the protagonists of the April 25 parade on Avenida da Liberdade on television.