{"id":13790,"date":"2015-10-25T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13790"},"modified":"2015-10-25T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T12:58:15","slug":"portugal-refuses-to-allow-elected-politicians-to-take-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13790","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Refuses to Allow Elected Politicians to Take Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/archives\/38598\" target=\"_blank\">Portugal Refuses to Allow Elected Politicians to Take Office<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><a href=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/Portuguese-presiden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38599\" src=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/Portuguese-presiden.jpg\" alt=\"epa04989908 Portuguese president Anibal Cavaco Silva addresses the nation, when he is expected to name caretaker prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho to form a new government, at Belem Palace, in Lisbon, Portugal, 22 October 2015. Passos Coelho's center-right coalition won the most votes in an Oct. 4 general election but fell short of a majority in parliament. The opposition Socialists have pushed for an alternative government together with two far left parties. But, the president is likely to follow Portuguese political tradition and name the candidate whose party won the most votes to form a government.  EPA\/MANUEL DE ALMEIDA\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>COMMENT:<\/strong>\u00a0Hi Marty,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m another Englishman who is an avid reader of your blog and am very much looking forward to your ECM conference material later this year. As a European pouring thorough the continental news we are definitely seeing a reinforcing cycle of breakdown in government over the past few weeks and months. It seems everything from the migrant crisis to independence movements to the Polish elections to the British E.U referendum, people are slowly turning on the failed E.U project. It has peaked.<\/p>\n<p>The latest which I wanted to share with you and your readers is the deteriorating situation in Portugal, their president has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/economics\/11949701\/AEP-Eurozone-crosses-Rubicon-as-Portugals-anti-euro-Left-banned-from-power.html\"><strong>refused to appoint<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>a coalition government even though it secured an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament, all because it is anti-EU.<\/p>\n<p>It seems they aren\u2019t even disguising their disdain for the people\u2019s wishes now, we know that historically the E.U has bulldozed democracy by the back door but now it seems to be getting more extreme and overt. We are surely not too long from people on the streets, PEGIDA being just the first example.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<\/p>\n<p>JF<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/Soacrates-Prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38600\" src=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/Soacrates-Prison.jpg\" alt=\"Soacrates-Prison\" width=\"1032\" height=\"581\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prison of Socrates Where the First Martyr to Philosophy Died<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REPLY:<\/strong>\u00a0Indeed, Portugal has crossed the Rubicon. Europe is headed into the abyss all because politicians are incapable of ever admitting a mistake and that prevents any hope of reform. This cannot end nicely for they are stupid fools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal Refuses to Allow Elected Politicians to Take Office COMMENT:\u00a0Hi Marty, I\u2019m another Englishman who is an avid reader of your blog and am very much looking forward to your ECM conference material later this year. As a European pouring thorough the continental news we are definitely seeing a reinforcing cycle of breakdown in government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[5496,281,5479,4696,10191],"class_list":["post-13790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-europe","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-portugal","tag-portuguese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13791,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions\/13791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}