[victormeriqui]

It wasn't to anyone that asked, the city hall sent it willingly to any embassy "relevant" to the protest in context

I don't think it was a case of pandering to economically important regimes, it was more like disgusting and malicious incompetence, like most things that come out of the public sector in Lisbon with this government

[varjag]

People who are born free and live all their lives in free societies sometimes have certain sensibility atrophied. The concept of authoritarian states to them is as far fetched as non carbon-based life.

[icebraining]

I think the problem in Portugal is the opposite; the authoritarian regime was taken down in '74, but entirely too many people still have that mindset, even if they disagree on who should be the authority.