Ana Carla Gonçalves is a spokesperson of the collective "Que se lixe a Troika. Queremos as nossas vidas!" (Out with the Troika! We want our lives!) in Portugal.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
