The PS national secretary, Ana Catarina Mendes, on Friday in Porto accused the Social Democratic government of having “coexisted as if there was nothing about child labor” in the 1980s and 1990s, responding to Cavaco’s book Silva.
The book “The Prime Minister and the Art of Governing”, by the former head of government of the PSD (1985-1995) and former president (2006-2016), was presented this Friday in Lisbon.
“That is why, when we talk about the art of good governance, it is good to remember how in the 1980s and 1990s [foi um Governo] who lived as if it was nothing with child labor” noting afterwards that “it was the socialist government that eradicated child labor in Portugal”.
The minister of the PS government also started her intervention in the Socialist Youth Initiative by recalling the year 1991, the time when she joined the Socialist Youth. “to the Socialist Youth to fight the policies of then Prime Minister Cavaco Silva”.
Ana Catarina Mendes then turned to the numbers to “remember that in 2015 the school dropout rate was 13.7% and today it is 6%. In the same year, 40% of people entering the labor market had a secondary education, while this is the case now. 85%”.
“This is the difference between those who bring us a gray nostalgia and those who bring the country the social state at the service of people, of all generations and who invest in the younger generations”he said.
As President of the Porto PS District Federation, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues intervened in the Socialist Youth Initiative to recall that this Friday is a “historic day”, the day when “the person who appointed Couto dos Santos, the Minister of Education who created tuition fees in Portugal, has presented a book”.
Regarding the former politician’s work, he considered it “decontextualized” and “it just means that I am here”.
And this happens, he continued, because the former President of the Republic “succeeds in having more public visibility than the measures announced by the PSD”.
From the book, he also highlighted “the lack of memory” and the “idea that people quickly forget (…) what the right has done in this country”.
The 226-page book, which includes an original essay by Cavaco Silva on ‘the art of governing’, brings together articles published on European, economic and political themes, including ‘Politicians and Gresham’s Law’, according to which ‘ the bad currency drives the economy’. out good currency”, published in 2004, when Pedro Santana Lopes (PSD) was Prime Minister.
Source: DN
