Alentejo: Norberto Duckling, former mayor and Alentejo singer is one of the new Members of the PS.
The former Speaker of the House and singer of the group Song Regional Portel, It is one of the new Members of the PS in Parliament. Norberto Duckling, took office, a 27 November, day the Alentejo sing celebrated a year of lifting the UNESCO heritage.
"I will be MP, with the same ideals that I am singer ", well defined Norberto Duckling, one of the new socialist lawmakers who face the possession of the government headed by António Costa, We arrived last Friday to Parliament (WITH).
The former president of the Portsmouth Chamber and current president of the Municipal Assembly sings almost 40 years in Song Village Regional Group, It is one of its most outstanding voices and charismatic. It is impossible to dissociate the name of "Regional" than Norberto Duckling.
Using military language, the mayor justifies "sat square" as deputy 27 November, day in which "celebrated the 1st anniversary of the elevation of the Alentejo Sing the Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO", says proudly.
To 61 year old, Duckling lives "his third life". First taught, then mayor and now Rep. "I represent a people, one people, a region ", assuming as spokesman Alentejo, ensuring remain "the same man I've always been. As mayor and singer ", ends.
The Group Song Regional Portel, He was born on the night of 5 January 1976, will celebrate 40 year old, when a handful of young people toured the village streets chanting the "Sing of Kings". Norberto was not that night, but days later came the group.
Of the singers came out pocket money to record a cassette. The publisher, group without authorization made out a single (vinyl disk), where one of the fashions was "I heard the bird", what was to become a national success that "today everyone sing", remember. "We were seven weeks sales top in Portugal. Unprecedented and history to the Alentejo and traditional music ", remember Proud Congressman.
As a schoolteacher, Chief School, student Beja Polytechnic Education School, Mayoral, of the portelense 61 year old, never failed to put on the uniform, put the scarf around his neck and singing the Alentejo fashions. And now as a deputy, we asked: "The sing is something that is not lost. It works as an escape to overcome the routine of life ", justifies Norberto Duckling.
Councilman without portfolios for the Opposition 12 years in the House of Portel, won the council communists, who led for 16 year old, a post he left in 2013, given the mandates limiting law. Still duckling was elected president of the Municipal Assembly, which meant that never left his land.
Thanks to the assumption of the Minister of Agriculture folder, by Capoulas Santos, Duckling, number two of the list PS in Evora, takes place in Parliament and will change their daily routines. "Often I find myself sing when I'm alone at the wheel. Now, travel in Évora-Lisbon-Évora most have a good reason to narrow down throat to speak in Parliament ", says the joke.
Says fashion, "I heard a bird, at four in the morning ", and the novel deputy is "an incentive" to get up early or make a direct, so that "hear loudly the voice of Alentejo" in parliament.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
