Chega this Wednesday (14) compared the teachers’ protests on June 10 in Peso da Régua with situations experienced by teachers in schools and believed that the Prime Minister “I didn’t like to taste it on the skin”.
In a political statement in the Assembly of the Republic, Deputy Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro addressed the protests of teachers in Peso da Régua during Portugal, Camões and Portuguese Communities Day celebrations, which included posters depicting the prime minister with two pencils pierced eyes and a pig’s nose.
“I have little concern that a President of the Republic, a Prime Minister or a Minister be insulted, disrespected, mistreated or excluded in the performance of their duties, while this political class remains indifferent to similar and much more serious practices that afflict every day .” a teacher or a police officer also in the performance of his duties”he claimed.
Chega’s deputy considered that “the Prime Minister did not like experiencing first-hand conditions akin to a classroom where teachers have to endure similar environments every day, every year” It is “lost self control”.
“Just replace the image of the prime minister surrounded by teachers on the street, with the image of teachers surrounded by students in a classroom, disrespecting them, not letting them talk, intimidating, humiliating, discrediting, ridiculing them.” of, insult” It is “may attack”orphan.
Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro, a teacher by profession, defended that “an intelligent and responsible political class must make the June 10 episodes in Peso da Régua the turning point” in the way teachers have been treated.
The deputy also accused António Costa of “using the word racism in the most clumsy, wrong, unfair and even unreasonable way”.
In the sole request for clarification of Chega’s political statement, PSD deputy António Cunha opined that “no matter how much António Costa is offended by what happened on June 10, a prime minister should be above every poster”. .
“I didn’t see this concern when other posters and at other times came out as well,” he criticized, also stating that “it’s not fair to take the part for the whole thing.”
The Social Democrat also accused the latest executives of “dismantling the public school for the past eight years” and stated that “the conflict between the government and teachers continues and the malaise in schools is worrying”.
The theme of the posters on which the prime minister is caricatured with a pig’s nose and pencils stuck in his eyes had already been casually taken to the plenary meeting by PS deputy Rui Lage, at the end of his political statement – which included the theme of the Social Forum held in Porto two weeks ago.
The socialist believed that there has been a “degeneration of political language” in Portugal that contributes to an “unhealthy environment that generates forms of protest as despicable as those targeted by the Prime Minister on June 10 and who did think of the racial baggage of June 10 or other times”.
In a request for clarification to Rui Lage, Liberal Initiative deputy João Cotrim Figueiredo told him: “I didn’t hear your voice when the Prime Minister came here to talk about the squeaky cupcakes, I didn’t hear him speak”.
“It’s just that I sleep very well on that side, I don’t feel offended at all, I find it extremely funny and I will always defend freedom of speech, even if it is rude and even if it is on the lips of the Prime Minister I ask him if he does the same and if you manage to convince your colleagues on the bench,” added Cotrim Figueiredo.
Rui Lage replied that his reference to “discursive degradation” applies to the “Portuguese political class” in general and that “out of modesty” he would not “list all the derogatory expressions used in debates in this house and beyond”. the political debate”.
Source: DN
