The PCP Secretary General announced this Sunday that the Prime Minister will receive a petition with 100,000 subscribers demanding a reversal of government policy, and accused PS and the right of getting their hands dirty in privatizations.
Paulo Raimundo spoke at the end of a lunch meeting at the volunteer fire brigade of Vila Franca de also expected the government to withdraw from the increase in the Single Circulation Tax (IUC).
Addressing hundreds of PCP activists and supporters, Paulo Raimundo considered an action essential “to increase wages and pensions, for the right to health care and housing, to defend public services, free childcare for all children, for sovereignty and development, and signed the petition addressed to the Prime Minister” .
‘We want and will collect 100,000 signatures to confront the government with these demands that are so important for the lives of workers, young people and pensioners. Let us move forward, let us take even more initiative, let us reach out, in companies, in neighborhoods, in parishes, in buildings, in transport, in every place, but we will also test everyone’s capabilities,” he challenged out. .
Paulo Raimundo went even further in his call for the mobilization of communist activists and sympathizers: “It is necessary that each of us considers himself militant in this collective task, that everyone assumes that, by collecting the list of signatures, he talks to their neighbors, they talk to his colleagues, he talks to those he meets on transport, he talks to those he sees every day,” he added.
In his speech said In addition to repeating criticism of the PS director’s budget proposal – with the irony that “it is so good that it leaves PSD, CDS, Chega and IL without subject” – the PCP general secretary referred to the planned privatizations at Efacec and other CRANE.
“The PS and the right have soiled their hands with the privatizations of TAP and Efacec,” he accused, even speaking of “economic crimes.”
“The state, each of us, has transferred millions of euros to Efacec, to which we are now adding another 200 million euros. Clean, capitalized company, with contracts and, given this, what is the option? The German buyer takes over the company with the company’s own money. We’ve already seen this film on TAP and it wasn’t that long ago. And let’s see if it is not such a maneuver that is also intended for TAP,” he warned.
Before pledging to fight these planned privatizations, the PCP Secretary General held the government responsible for the progressive degradation of the National Health Service (SNS) and railed against “the immorality of the state’s transfer of eight billion euros to the disease sector’. “, i.e. for private healthcare.
“It is necessary to stop the continued dismantling of the SNS – and from here we leave the call to intensify this fight. Users and professionals are united in defending the SNS, this is a defining element that the government wants to break, trying to create an artificial divide between users and professionals,” he said, here in an indirect allusion to the ongoing negotiations between Health Minister Manuel Pizarro and the unions, which were still unsuccessful.
Paulo Raimundo then expressed his confidence that the government will not be able to create this gap, “because users know and know from their own experience the commitment, commitment and dedication of doctors, nurses and all professionals who work every day, with many difficulties and too many working hours , the functioning of the SNS”.
Turning to the international situation, the PCP Secretary General has once again condemned the Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip.
“He who does not act is an accomplice,” he claimed.
According to the communist leader, the world is facing “a massacre unfolding at the same time that hypocrisy, cynicism and the clearest complicity in this same ongoing massacre are being paraded on television.”
“There is no tolerance, there is no possible understanding of what is happening, there is no patience for the crocodile tears shed here and there,” he added.
Source: DN
