Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister |
As the the Web Summit was coming to
a close in Lisbon, a day after the results of the American elections became
known, the Municipality of Lisbon placed some outdoors that read: “In the free
world you can still find a city to live, invest and build your future, making
brigdes [sic], not walls. We call it Lisbon”. The outdoors were classified as “anti-Trump”
by the opposition, which preferred to think that this was “an abusive
interpretation and that [the mayor’s] intention was not to disrespect the
democratic choice of the American people, it was not a demonstration of
ideological arrogance, it was not an opportunistic precipitation as a result of
becoming dazzled with the international attention." In short, the opposition
asked for explanations (read the article).