To the tune of 'No Céu Azul' by his band Irmãos Catita, Manuel João Vieira, a candidate in the presidential race, promises—in his usual humorous style—a luxury car factory to supply “the whole Iberian Peninsula.” Twenty-one years ago, after an earlier, unrealised candidacy, he was writing political commentary for the newspaper BLITZ, arguing that “citizen intervention is the only way to save politics.”