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From "bloodthirsty drug trafficker" to "law of the strongest", from "decorative vase" to "impartial referee", from "business facilitator" to "mud and vulgarity": and so the debates ended

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From "bloodthirsty drug trafficker" to "law of the strongest", from "decorative vase" to "impartial referee", from "business facilitator" to "mud and vulgarity": and so the debates ended

In the final and longest debate, with all 11 presidential candidates facing each other, the evening opened with the capture of Maduro and the fear of a world where “there is no justice”, moved on to the question of what kind of President each wants to be, and landed on the economy and immigration — between a promise of “intervention”, an appeal to an “impartial referee” and the idea that Portugal “needs immigrants”. At the close, when they listed what had not been discussed, the boundary — more or less clear — between Belém's remit and government matters also remained.

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