[icebraining]

Finally citizens can decide. Vote for politicians

Frankly, that's a cop out, because you'd be insane to vote for the politician based on his/her opinions on taxi regulation laws. Our political systems simply don't allow real choice.

And even if you count voting in a broad direction as having real choice, that still doesn't work, because we have no pro-"free markets" party in this country.

So, no, we can't.

[kiiski]

> Frankly, that's a cop out

So is saying that the rules can be broken because there are no parties who would remove them. European democracies generally allow people to form new parties, and I don't belive Portugal is an exception. If the population was pro free market, there would be parties that are pro free market. If there are no such parties, that is because the population doesn't support that idea.