Questions and Answers from KTTL

Q. What is different between Lusitanian people and the portuguese one?

A. We Lusitanian people are the native people of Portugal, while portuguese people are an offspring of foreign peoples and former invaders of our nation. Of course we Lusitanians have portuguese citizenship, but we have a different culture and ethnicity also. Other peoples and regions there are in Portugal, but the portuguese ones are about half million only, and most of them belong to the social and political elites who had governed Portugal since its independence. Our Home is the region of Beiras, in reality Lusitania itself.

 

Q. Why Lusitania needs an official region, an autonomous Assembly and local Government?

A. Because Lusitanian people must manage their own destiny and Lusitania deserves better. Smaller countries in Europe have regions with local government and parliaments. In reality, we think that the portuguese elites, establishment and political classes are coward and corrupt, and do not love this country, its peoples and our nation.

 

Q. What does Lusitanian Popular National Congress (KTTL) stand for?

A. KTTL was set up at the beginning of 2007 to bring a fresh approach to the Lusitanian political scene. The party’s aim is to represent those who feel let down by the portuguese tribal party machines and believe that a future Lusitanian Assembly or Regional Parliament must to tackle the real challenges that face Lusitania.

Q. What makes KTTL different?

A. We are not a typical political party. Nor a portuguese one, we are a traditional Lusitanian political organization. We have no party whip. Our aim is to hold to rigorous account members of the Portuguese Government and Parliament about the Lusitanian question and regionalisation, regardless of which party they represent in a manner that has been clearly absent since democracy in 1974. We intend to audit the performance of the Portuguese Government and Parliament and report back to the electorate.

Q. Where is the party positioned politically?

A. We are not interested in political labels, nor are we motivated by political dogma. We will never ask whether an idea is left wing or right wing, only whether it is good for Lusitanian nation and people. We believe in Lusitania and what is best for the people of our nation. If anything, we occupy the centre ground. We believe fervently in real autonomy, free healthcare and education but that business must be encouraged to prosper to make for a successful nation and to pay our way in the world.

Q. Do you agree with other lusitanian regionalist and nationalist parties' plans to break-up the country or Portugal?

A. No. And nor do the majority of Lusitanians we think. We believe the interests of Lusitania are paramount in this debate about the regionalisation in Portugal. A case for full independence has not been made.

Q. Why have the mainstream portuguese parties (PS, PSD, CDS) failed to do regionalisation and create the regions settlement we were promised?

A. Because they have compromises with some reactionary sectors of the portuguese establishment and elites, and are too busy playing party politics instead of getting down to the serious business of creating regions in Portugal and devolved real autonomy to the regions and Lusitania itself, as it ought to be, and because they have failed to understand and therefore address the true problems in Lusitania and other regions in Portugal.

Q. Until the regionalisation of Portugal and the official creation of the region for Lusitania, what will KTTL be doing in the meantime?

A. We shall be building support from all sections of Lusitanian life. We want frontline experts from healthcare, education, law and order, environment and business, to join us and make their voices heard in the search for a better Lusitania. We want to hear from the people of Lusitania, workers in the front line – peasants, teachers, nurses, doctors, firemen, civil servants – people, who between them, know most of the answers and are seldom heard.

Q. And what about the modern Lusitanic language, is it viable to speak Lusitanic in Lusitania in the next few years?

A. We thik so. At least a cultural level, if not a social. Today only few people speaks the reconstructed modern Lusitanic in our community. But if in the next hundred years 1,000 people succeed in speaking fluent Lusitanic, it will be a great victory for us.

Q. How do I become involved with Lusitanian Popular National Congress?

A. Click on "Mail" or "Contact Us" in this website for more details.