A MAN WHO HIDES HIS POLITICAL PAST
November 22, 2004 by Ken
Filed under The Best of the Rest
As the EU parliament ponders what to do about the news that two of the new EU Commissioners have faced legal problems in the recent past, Martin Coles reminds us that even the New president Barroso has a previous life that he does not wish to be open to public gaze, so much so that he left six years out of his own CV.
Ironies:
“EU President Barroso’s Missing Years
As the past of French EU Commissioner now Vice-President Jaques Barrot, will take centre stage in the EU tomorrow – Is it not time once again to consider the missing years from the CV of President Barroso, first raised on this blog many months ago?
HOW CAN THE EU NOW ACCEPT AS COMMISSION PRESIDENT (according to the report linked below) A MAN WHO HIDES SIX YEARS OF HIS POLITICAL PAST?
Any interested in the Marxist background of the man who will take almost sole charge of the old continent tomorrow morning would be advised to read the report from this link, of which this quote is most pertinent:-
The political history of the conservative Portuguese leader, now 48 years old, began during the leftist military ”Carnation Revolution” of 1974. He was the student leader of the Movement for the Renovation of the Proletariat Party/Portuguese-Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MRPP/PCP-ML).
This was a long name for a miniscule Mao-inspired organisation that had pegged the rest of the political left as ”revisionist”, ‘’social-fascist” and ”imperialist sell-outs”.
In the official biography of the man who is now Portugal’s prime minister, that period of his ”revolutionary outbreak” was left out.
After a brief mention — ”he began his political activity as a very young man, even before Apr. 25, 1974” — six years of his political life were omitted from the official text, which goes on to describe how in 1980 he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which is conservative despite what its name might suggest. “
