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21/11/2008

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Valente, Vasco Pulido

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Público - Portugal | 29/04/2007

A corruption scandal shakes up Lisbon town hall

A real estate scandal is shaking up Lisbon town hall: several elected member of the municipal majority have been indicted and the mayor, Antonio Carmona Rodeiguez, may soon be too. For Vasco Pulide Valente, "Carmons Rodigues no longer has any credibility. Especially as the alliance [The Democratic and Social/People's Party with the Democratic and Social Centre (right)] no longer exists. ... And yet last week the gentleman went, 36 months later, to inaugurate a dangerous tunnel [in the heart of the city], as if he were offering a work of art to a grateful populace. It is true that he is not the only guilty one in a scandal that unmasks the true face of Portuguese politics. ... The Lisbon town hall is holding a mirror up to the parties. When they draw close to it with their Snow-White faces, it is the wicked step-mother who appears."

Público - Portugal | 01/09/2006

The end of the weekly paper 'O Independente'

The weekly 'O Independente', founded in 1987, will no longer be issued. "Conceived by young people, (Miguel Esteves Cardoso and Paulo Portas who were twenty-something at the time), 'O Independente' did not know how to grow up", writes Vasco Pulido Valente. "Indeed both of them ended up giving it up. ... This no doubt explains why the paper never lost, even at its peak, a certain sense of improvisation which was its charm, even when announcing it's imminent elimination. ... Portugal as normalised by Cavaco Silva [Prime Minister from 1985 to 1995], with his authority and incorrigible arrogance, demanded an enormous amount of insolence and audacity. With its free tone, 'O'Independente ' consoled the country. ... However, if on one hand there was a feeling, a certain euphoria in its columns all this time, there was not, on the other hand any real substance: no organised and shared political vision, no journalistic genre and no solid financial ground."

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