Os amigos do Coelho

Muito se disse sobre a entrada de Jorge Coelho na Mota-Engil. A ele, e às suspeitas de tráfico de influências (na praça pública, que nos tribunais, que se saiba, nada está) se atribui o sucesso dos últimos anos.

Gostava de saber, só por curiosidade, quem são os "amigos do Coelho" (do Jorge) no governo conservador da Polónia.

É uma curiosidade que me assiste!

Saber fazer.

Pois é Carlos, daí devíamos tirar algumas lições. O problema é que em Portugal não existe nenhum partido liberal, nem conseguimos fugir do bipartidarismo amorfo com que construímos a nossa democracia. É uma pena, mas se, em teoria, o Luís Filipe Meneses se aguentar 20anos na liderança do PSD, há-de ser Primeiro-Ministro, como o foi Durão Barroso.
É essa a inevitabilidade de um sistema político muito pouco competitivo, que não obriga à inovação, que corrói a vontade e que impede a renovação.
Quanto à Polónia… pelo que sei é a geração da mudança quem lidera o PS local, com um líder na casa dos 30. Nestas condições, é difícil requerer uma mudança geracional. Há que regressar às bases. Construir uma nova equipa, um novo projecto, para que a social-democracia consiga ser competitiva num sistema potencialmente tripartido no futuro próximo.

Change happens

Parece que a coisa mudou, lá para os lados da Polónia. Ainda falta um dos gémeos, mas o que se podia afastar agora foi afastado. Vá lá que assinaram o acordo de Lisboa a tempo...
O Pedro Mexia e o Carlos Castro já referiram, indirectamente, o facto, mas eu acrescento uma interrogação: não podiam os polacos ter um Partido Socialista (liberal) que fosse competitivo nas eleições?
Ah, quem ganhou as eleições foram os Liberais.

Polónia III

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We wish to express our solidarity with women's rights activists in Poland in their struggle for the legalization of abortion. The right to decide about one's life, to choose or not choose to be a mother, is a woman's fundamental right. It is the obligation of the state to ensure that a woman can bear a child in safe conditions, but also to provide access to safe and legal abortion. We hope that Polish women will soon regain the right to self-determination.

Polónia II

Dear Friend,

We appeal to you as members of the Polish movement for the legalization of abortion, hoping to solicit your support for our struggle. We only ask for a few words signed with your name.

The present ultra-right government in our country is taking steps to introduce changes in our Constitution that will effectively lead to a total ban on abortion. The current law is already profoundly hostile to women, with abortion legal only in 3 cases: when pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, when the fetus is seriously damaged, or when the pregnancy is a threat to the woman's life or health. In practice, even in such cases it is almost impossible to obtain a legal abortion.

Therefore, we not only oppose the current government's plans to inscribe the anti-choice policy permanently into the Constitution, but we also protest against the present restrictive law. Meanwhile, there is a flourishing abortion underground in Poland - estimated at 80-200 thousand terminations annually. It is a solution for the well-off: the price of a safe abortion varies from 500 to 1000 Euros. With 60% of Polish women surviving for less than 200 Euros per month, and another 15% living on 100Euros, we judge that only about 20% of the society can afford these illegal abortion services.

The vast majority of women is likely to resort to dangerous home-made measures, or is forced to give birth to unwanted children, which will be doomed to emotional as well as economic poverty. Our voice is not respected in Poland. Those who support women's choice - a norm in most European countries - are marginalized and labeled as "extremists".

We are activists, writers, scientists, artists. Yet, in order to be heard, we need to secure the support of people such as yourself - people who are well known and respected both in Poland and abroad. Please devote a moment of your time to send us a few words of support - Together we hope to break the chain of women's tragedies.

Sincerely Yours,

Katarzyna Bratkowska, Micha½ P½aczek, S.O.S. - Association for the Legalization of Abortion in PolandAgnieszka Graff, Women's 8th of March AllianceWanda Nowicka, Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning Julia Kubisa, MaMa Foundation

Polónia I

The polish parliament will vote (probably the 11th April) an modification of the Constitution, with a definition of life : "from the moment of the conception". Two amandements are in discussion, one (art. 30) saying that human dignity start "on the moment of conception" (so the embryon has dignity as a women...) and second (art. 38) saying that Polish state must defand human life "from the moment of the conception". This two amandements are proposed by the ultra integrist, semi fascist League of Polish Famillies (LPR - who is in the governement and has membrers in europarliament also) but also supported by probably the majority of parliamentaries from the presidential party, Law and Justice (PiS). The vote will be decided by some votes...

enviem o que conseguirem para sameosobie@feminoteka.pl