300 Days of Sunshine, Wine, Sardines & Spirituality
He is, certainly, the most unsettling candidate in the January 16 presidential election. Following his defense of cod and the “cryptonote” in the January 7 debate on RTP earlier this week, Manuel João Vieira now uses television airtime to deliver a message that blends proposals and more or less outlandish desires, based on irony and humor, with a musical backdrop reminiscent of recordings from Ena Pá 2000 or under his own name, and repeated animations created using Artificial Intelligence.
“I want to transform Portugal into paradise and then prevent the Portuguese from ruining it” or “We will have 300 days of sun, wine and sardines, and more spirituality than all the internet gurus combined” are two lines from a clip where paradise, spirituality and humor - though not a presidential duty, he claims the creation of the Ministry of Good Humor – are presented as key pillars.