The PCP refuses to return to an agreement with the PS that does not entail changes in labor law. “I will conclude an agreement today if the Socialist Party follows our proposals in the Assembly of the Republic. Let’s see what the Socialist Party’s position on this is today – that’s the big question, the rest is just up to us to come up with scenarios. that do not affect people’s lives,” the general secretary of the PCP told journalists, on the sidelines of an interaction with employees outside the Matutano company, in the municipality of Alenquer, district of Lisbon.
The PCP presented yesterday in Parliament four projects to change labor legislation, namely in the areas of collective contracts, regulation of shift work and appreciation of those who work shifts and the end of cuts in overtime, “made by the PSD/CDS PP government [e] which the socialist government did not want to restore”.
“I do not confuse the objectives of these forces with the people who, for this or that reason, consider supporting this force electorally. They are two completely different things.”
Raimundo challenged the PS, but made it clear that the PCP has nothing to do with the socialists in this area (labor laws). “What I heard from Pedro Nuno Santos’ statements, even during the Socialist Party’s election campaign, was that we had to maintain stability in labor law,” the communist leader said. He added: “What does instability mean in the lives of these people, that’s the big question. And that’s why today is a good opportunity to make it clear what paths everyone wants and the answer will determine what tomorrow will be.” In other words: “The PS is only one and it is not worth thinking that a solution for our lives will emerge from it.”
Yesterday, Paulo Raimundo, interviewed on the CDU website, rehearsed arguments aimed at Chega voters (current and possibly future). “I do not confuse the objectives of these forces with the people who, for this or that reason, consider supporting this force electorally. They are two completely different things.”
“The people who are rightly outraged are rightly absolutely betrayed. They feel mistreated. To be consistent with this, the vote must be one of protest, of outrage, but also in the hope of opening a new path. And all this can only take place in the PCP and the CDU.”
So – he continued – for people who already “thought it would occur to them to ultimately support this political force,” it would be preferable if they thought that “their vote would, under many circumstances, be much better supported by that force.” can be used. of trust, in the power of protest, in the power of outrage, but in the power of hope and opening a new path” – that is, in the CDU.
Protest with hope
“They can paint themselves in all colors, they can speak loudly, they can shout, they can make up all kinds of lies, which is a recurring thing in these forces [Chega, mas também a Iniciativa Liberal]. But the truth is this: we know where they came from and we know why they left. And we know the role that capital gives them. They comply. We must recognize that they fulfill this role. And so, to get back to the question, the people who are rightly outraged are rightly absolutely betrayed. They feel mistreated. To be consistent with this, the vote must be one of protest, of outrage, but also in the hope of opening a new path. And all this can only apply to the PCP and the CDU, because otherwise it is ‘a wasted vote’.
Unimportant voices
For the communist leader, ‘indignant’ people therefore have three options: either ‘they make life as good as they can’ and ‘they have no participation’. [e] political intervention’; or else ‘they choose to vote for forces that, deep down, are exploiting each of these problems to the hilt, not to solve them, not to attack them, but to promote themselves, and there it is , for the role that their capital tells them they must fulfill”, this is “a protest vote without any consequences”; or, finally, they vote for the CDU, which is “the protest vote, the voice that should reflect righteous indignation, but at the same time the voice that gives strength to those who go to the root of the problem.”
Source: DN
