“The balance I make is extremely positive. In five years, there has been an enormous evolution,” said Silva who pointed to the MEP elected in 2014 and his own election to the national parliament last year as endowing “visibility on PAN that as from 4 October became able to highlight causes, values, messages, ideas and measures that nobody else talks about”.
Silva then put forward bull fighting, climate change and oil drilling as “forgotten subjects” that PAN would “continue to raise, freshly and also with some irreverence” in parliament even while pointing to the time limitations imposed on him in accordance with his status as the sole party MP.
Silva said PAN needs to work to “transform awareness” in order to achieve its five-year goals: bullrings closed and converted into museums, animals with legal rights, a society where politics is not subject to the economy and “where gender discrimination does not exist.”