“Joao Soares is a very careful man to the field of Culture, the area over which always looked with particular interest. I consider him a man with great experience in various bodies including international, which can greatly help your job . This is a folder where the cosmopolitan movements are fundamental and their knowledge of the culture in Lisbon is certainly another good support for the work. It is a very positive choice, I see with good eyes. I understand that John Smith has the most capabilities than enough to occupy this position. It also has management experience, diplomatic experience, which is always need in this area. I have no doubt you will have a good acceptance in cultural circles. ” The testimony is Isabel Pires de Lima, former Minister of Culture of the first Government of José Sócrates.
Also Antonio Mega Ferreira welcomed the choice of Mr Costa. “It’s a great choice,” says writer and former president of the Centro Cultural de Belém. “John Smith is a politician and political weight. A doer and a very connected Culture man. It has all the conditions to be an excellent Minister of Culture “.
Inês de Medeiros, suggested as a possible candidate for the folder, pronounced the same way. Moreover, a sense of unanimity among all the figures we spoke. “I think this is a political choice that intends to highlight the political program that would give the Culture, which is a central area of governance. John Smith is someone who does not teach the importance of culture, which is very good with account of the former Prime Minister, “the deputy of the Socialist Party elected by the Setúbal circle.
Francisco José Viegas, a former secretary of state Bunny Steps culture, rushes to praise the appointment . It is the only of the list of personalities called democratic right that we contacted and that there declined to weave any comment on the matter. “Joao Soares is a good negotiator, one sane and brave man (even with physical courage, which is also necessary in this folder if you do not know) and a very positive experience of cultural management. It was a great editor. I think it’s a choice very clever, giving a sign that the government will not meet the lobbyists or the big shots and figuronas that in recent months entered in competition, forming a long queue so that if he knew who was more ‘friend Coast’. “
Paul White, the largest producer of national cinema, is sparing in words but incisive: “John Smith deserves all the respect and all confidence.” To Diogo Infante, the new minister of culture, he believes, “is a sign of a strong bet for Culture during the next legislative period.” The actor and director, former director of the National Theatre D. Maria II, says “we should not forget that John Smith was councilor of the sector of Culture in the House of Lisbon and has experience as a literary editor.” “I think that deserves respect the artistic community and especially our vote of confidence. I sincerely hope that approximates the cultural agents who know the realities and set a strong cultural policy, competent, able to definitely change the poor relation of stigma historically is attributed to the culture in Portugal, “concludes Diogo Infante.
Of the art comes not dissonant voice Joana Vasconcelos. “Joao Soares has a global and comprehensive view of the culture and is a man with great political knowledge. Two essential components in order to come to do a good job and hard to find in one person. It is a dynamic man, do things, organizing things, messes up well. ”
Since the area of music comes the desire to Ana Bacalhau, lead singer of Deolinda. With little political memory on the role of John Smith ahead of the Lisbon municipality destinations, says, however, take it into account “as a learned man and the world” and hopes “that can do the best work for the sake of culture”. Furthermore welcomes the Government of Costa have “created a Ministry of Culture truly assumed without reservations and conditions”.
Not wanting to give the face for reasons “very personal” one of the great cultural agents the country makes a meaningful analysis. “Joao Soares will be a good minister of culture. It has political weight and is man able to negotiate bat to bat with the ministers of Finance, Economy, Education, Science. Increasingly, the culture is transverse. It takes so that it be treated preferentially by people outside of the medium. Since Manuel Maria Carrilho, with few exceptions, all the Minister of Culture were people of the area and were not good ministers. Since the community of artists normally expect that the post is occupied by a of his and that of his is always more susceptible to friendships, this is a nice choice. The minister will not have the natural tendency of others to go back to when life does not want to have enemies. “
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