PCP secretary general Paulo Raimundo defended in Marinha Grande on Thursday night that the communists have “serious solutions” to solve the country’s problems, as opposed to the measures of “parties with ‘right bills'”.
Under the motto “Solutions for our lives”, the PCP promoted a meeting in a city garden to present a series of proposals that, Paulo Raimundo lamented, “were rejected” by what he called “parties of ‘correct accounts'”.
“The parties of ‘certain accounts’, of certain accounts with economic groups, parties subject to the European Union and the Euro”, are “the PS, PSD, CDS, Chega and Liberal Initiative [que] all of them have soiled hands and responsibilities in the situation we find ourselves in,” the secretary-general accused.
Among the ‘solutions for our lives’ are the increase in wages and pensions ‘significantly’, the reduction of the IRS for employees and retirees, the fixing of prices for essential goods ‘namely food’, the reduction of VAT on electricity , gas and telecommunications, as well as “taxing the profits of major economic groups”.
In addition, the communists want to “guarantee labor rights, effective contracts, regulated hours” and “increased investment in health care, education, culture, sports, transportation and public services.”
“The solution we need is a general practitioner for all, who puts health workers, resources and resources into the National Health Service. The solution is respect for teachers and restoration of their full-time employment,” said Paulo Raimundo.
For the housing problem, the PCP wants “effective immediately” a moratorium, “for a period of two years”, as during the pandemic, “that exempts families from paying their loan amortization”, along with the establishment of “a spread of 0.25% against Caixa Geral de Depósitos”.
On the other hand, the secretary-general suggests that “the bank’s profits should support interest rate hikes”.
For the district of Leiria, where he was, the leader of the communists demanded the modernization of the Linha do Oeste “in its entirety”, the purchase of more trains and the hiring of more workers, along with the “urgent” construction of “an new public hospital, with public management, in the western region”.
“But it is necessary to move on: six years after the disastrous fires of 2017, investments in firefighters and civil protection, in forest management and in strengthening the promised budget for the ICNF have still not materialized ”, he emphasized. demanding measures for “the situation faced by hundreds of stone pear producers, with significant production shortfalls”.
In Marinha Grande, the PCP promised to resubmit the previously rejected proposals, because “they have not lost their topicality and importance”:
“We will return to them, we will not abdicate, we will not give up any solution and we will not conform to the injustice and inequality to which the country is being dragged,” in a scenario of “brutal contrast between the harsh daily life of the huge majority and the unprecedented gains of economic groups”.
For Paulo Raimundo, it is “impossible that the richest 5% of our country owns 42% of all the wealth created” and “there are three million workers, 70% of all the labor force in Portugal, earning up to a thousand people.” euros gross salary per month”.
Source: DN
